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By Hillary Borrud
The Bulletin

Some parts of the $96 million Bend-La Pine Schools
bond measure on the May ballot are very specific. Officials have estimated new windows at Bear Creek Elementary School will cost $187,330 and tennis courts at
Bend High School will cost $143,000. Newbleachers for
Cascade Middle School are expected to cost $150,150.
Then there's the big unknown: Will the district be
able to connect a new middle school and elementary
school, the big ticket items on the bond with a combined cost of roughly $54 million, to the
city sewer?
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Bend's sewer system is at capacity in
possible s o m e areas, which results in construcschool
tion delays while the city works with
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dev e l opers to figure out solutions. In
some cases,developers have to build or
replace sewer infrastructure. The school district has
not determined where it would build the elementary
school, but officials hope to build the middle school
on 36 acres the district owns near Shevlin Park, just
west of the city.
That means the middle school would have to connect to a sewer line where capacity is already limited.
It would also send wastewater to the west-side pump
station, which sends most of the dirty water from the
west side of Bend to a major gravity sewer line. This
pump is near the limit of how much sewage it can send
into the gravity line.
The city plans to spend $9.6 million on short-term
fixes that could alleviate both of these problems, but
one part of the solution — a new pump station and
sewer main at Colorado Avenue — will take roughly
18 months to design and build, said City Engineer and
Assistant Public Works Director Tom Hickmann.
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fat; it's

the germs
By Gina Kolata
New York Times News Service

It was breakfast time
and the people participating in a study of red meat
and its consequences had
hot, sizzling sirloin steaks
plopped down in front of
them. Theresearcher himself bought a George Foreman grill for the occasion,
and the nurse assisting
him did the cooking.
For the sake of science,
these six men and women
ate every last juicy bite of
the 8-ounce steaks. Then
they waited to have their
blood drawn.
Dr. Stanley Hazen of the
Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit academic medical
center, who led the study,
and his colleagues had
accumulatedevidence for
a surprising new explanation of why red meat may
contribute to heart disease.
And they were testing it
with this early morning
experiment.
The researchers had
come to believe that what
damaged hearts was not
just the thick edge of fat on
steaks, or the delectable
marbling of their tender
interiors.
The real culprit, they
proposed, was a littlestudied chemical that is
burped out by bacteria in
the stomach after people
eat red meat.
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Joe Kline/The Bulletin

Water for irrigation flows into the North Unit diversion canal after being released Wednesday
morning in Bend. "The outlook looks really good," said Jeremy Giffin of the Oregon Water
Resources Department. "The reservoirs are filled up nicely."

Deschutes and Crooked rivers are brimThe Bulletin
ming with water, according to data SaturAround Central Oregon, irrigation caday from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
nals are filling with water again as growWickiup Reservoir on th e D eschutes
ing season begins.
was 100 percent full with just over 200,000
The North Unit Irrigation District startacre-feet of water, and Prineville Reservoir
ed its diversion from the Deschutes River on the Crooked was also 100 percent full
in Bend on Wednesday, sending water with more than 148,000 acre-feet of water.
toward cropland near Madras, and the An acre-foot is enough water to submerge
Tumalo Irrigation District diversion starts
an acre of land a foot deep.
April 15. Other districts around Central
Also on the Deschutes River system,
Oregon are already supplying water or are Crane Prairie Reservoir is 90 percent full
about to start.
with more than 49,000 acre-feet, and CresWhile some districts started releasing
cent Lake is 83 percent full with more than
water early following the last three dry
72,000 acre-feet.
months in Central Oregon, there should be
Also on th e C r ooked River system,
plenty of water this summer, said Jeremy
Ochoco Reservoir is 71 percent full with
Giffin, Deschutes Basin watermaster for
more than 44,000 acre-feet, and Haystack
the Oregon Water Resources Department Reservoir is 86 percent full with more than
in Bend.
4,800 acre-feet.
"The outlook looks really good," he said.
"Everything is looking great," Giffin said
"The reservoirs are filled up nicely."
late last week.
The two major reservoirsfeeding the
SeeIrrigation/A4

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Cursive
sees
writing
on wall

By Darryl Fears

By T. Rees Shapiro

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — It
is the dawn of the super
crab.
Crabs are bulking
up on carbon pollution
that pours out of power
plants, factories and
vehicles and settles in
the oceans, turning the
tough crustaceans into
fearsome predators.
That presents a
major problem for the
Chesapeake Bay, where
crabs eat oysters. In a
life-isn't-fair twist, the
same carbon that crabs

The curlicue letters
of cursive handwriting, once considered a
mainstay of American
elementary education, have been slowly

disappearing from
classrooms for years.
Now, with most states
adopting new national
standards that don't
require such instruction, cursive could
soon be eliminated at
most public schools.
For many students,
cursive is becoming
as foreign as ancient

absorb to grow bigger

Egyptian hieroglyph-

stymies the development ofoysters.
"Higher levels of
carbon in the ocean are
causing oysters to grow
slower, and their predators — such as blue
crabs — to grow faster,"
Justin Baker Ries, a
marine geologist at the
University of North
Carolina's Aquarium
Research Center, said in
an recent interview.
SeeCrabs/A5

ics. In college lecture
halls, more students
take notes on laptops
and tablet computers
than with pens and
notepads. Responding
to handwritten letters
from grandparents in
cursive is no longer
necessary as they,
too, learn how to use
email, Facebook and

Kerry inTurkey — Before departing for Israel on Sunday,Secretary of State John Kerry found time in Istanbul to urgeTurkish lead-

iviian eat sstirissue
By Azam Ahmed
New York Times News Service

KABUL, Afghanistan — A
U.S. military airstrike in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border killed as many as
18 people, including at least one
senior Taliban commander but
also women and children, raising the thorny issue of civilian
casualties for the third time in
roughly a week.
The attack occurred Saturday during a joint mission of
Afghan and U.S. special operations forces targeting a high
profile Taliban commander in
Kunar province, Afghan officialssaid. After several hours
of fierce fighting with insurgents in the area, the U.S. forces

called in an airstrike to level the
home of the commander, Ali
Khan, officials said.
In addition to killing Khan
and several other Taliban fighters, as many as 10 children were
killed in the strike and at least
fivewomen were wounded, said
Abdul Zahir Safi, the governor
of Shigal district, where the attack occurred. Afghan officials
believed they were the relatives
and children of the Taliban
commander.
Civilian casualties have long
been a sticking point between
President Hamid Karzai and
his Western allies. Harsh criticism by Karzai led to stronger
rules on airstrike use by U.S.
forces last year, effectively halt-

ers to make good on their commitment to normalize relations with
Israel. "We would like to see the relationship get back on track in its

full measure," Kerry said after meeting with Turkey's foreign minister,
Ahmet Davutoglu.

ISrael haCking —A loose international coalition of pro-Palestin-

ing air attacks on population
centers and homes.
C ivilian casualties at t h e
hands of foreign forces have
dropped dramatically s ince
then, though such strikes bring
intense anger among the Afghan population when they

ian computer hackers threatened to carry out what it called "a mas-

sive cyberassault" against Israel on Sunday,but the campaign created mostly minor disruptions, and the Israeli government said that
as of midday its websites were still accessible to the public.

Ted Stevens trial —An administrative judge hasoverturned the
suspensions of two federal prosecutors whom the Justice Department had tried to discipline for failing to turn over evidence that might

happen.

have helped thedefense in thebotched corruption trial against Sen.

On the Afghan side, Karzai
basically prohibited his own
armed forcesfrom requesting
supporting NATO airstrikes after an incident in the same district of Kunar, Shigal, in February 2012 killed 10 civilians.
On Sunday, Karzai's office issued a statement criticizing the
deaths in the Kunar airstrikes,
and called for an investigation
into civilians deaths there.

Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. Last year, the department found that the
two prosecutors had engaged in reckless — though not intentional

— professional misconduct and ordered them to be
suspended without pay.
Jail eSCape — A manwhotook hostages at a Hillary Rodham
Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 escaped from a minimum-security correctional facility Sunday, authorities said. Leeland

Eisenberg was discovered missing during anafternoon headcount at
the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester, state Depart-

locks has beencompleted and it's by far the most costly and complicated part of the $5.25 billion project to retrofit the nearly century-old
canal with larger locks to lift and lower ships on both the Atlantic and
Pacific sides of the isthmus. The old locks will still be in service but
the new ones will allow the canal to handle so-called post-Panamax
ships, which are too big to fit through the existing locks.

Amr Natiil /The Associated Press

Egyptian Christians chant anti-Muslim Brother-

by unnamed parties to broaden instability in Egypt by

hood slogans during a funeral service Sunday at the

igniting sectarian violence andspreading chaos.

Saint Mark Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. Several
Egyptians, including 4 Christians and a Muslim, were

A liberal opposition group, the Popular Current,
said the clashes were symptomatic of the failure of
the state to protect its citizens and called on Islamist
President Mohammed Morsi and his government to

killed in sectarian clashesSaturday.
Angered by the killings, the Christians left the fu-

tic cathedral into a battleground.
Reacting to Sunday's violence, the Muslim Broth-

gave orders to authorities to guard the cathedral and
citizens in the area, adding that protecting the lives of

his intentions concerning his biggest rival, who is also in custody,

erhood's political party blamed "dubious" attempts

Muslims andChristians was astate responsibility.

country's second-most prominent political prisoner Sunday, but
remained unclear. Thepardoned prisoner, Yuri Lutsenko, is a former
interior minister whose arrest in December2010 on charges that he
had abused his office raised concerns in the European Union and the
United States that Ukraine's democracy was at risk.

Muslim villagers in the region. Theattacks centered around the
volatile city of Jos, where thousands have been killed since Nigeria

became ademocracy in 1999.
— From wirereports

By Choe Sang-hun

kilometers or 1,864 miles. But
New York Times News Service
South Korean media and anaSEOUL, South Korea — The lysts say the missile can extend
South K o rean g o vernment its range to 4,000 kilometers,
warned Sunday that the North which would put U.S. bases in
might launch a missile later this Guam within its reach.
week, while a top military leadKim said that the North Koer postponed ascheduled tri
p rean authorities had told forto Washington, citing escalat- eign embassies in Pyongyang
ing tensions on the peninsula.
to inform them by Wednesday
The warning by Kim Jang- whether they needed assissoo, director of national securi- tance in evacuating should they
ty for President Park Geun-hye, wishto.
came three days after the South
Also on Sunday, Gen. Jung
K orea'sdefense minister said Seung-jo, chairman of the Joint
that the North had moved to its Chiefs of Staff of the South Koeast coast a missile with a "con- rean military, postponed plans
siderable range" but not capable to meet with his U.S. counterof reaching the U.S. mainland.
part, Gen. Martin Dempsey, in
The missile was widely be- Washington on April 16, mililieved to be the Musudan, which tary officials said. Jung could
the South Korean military says not be away from South Korea,
can travel"more than" 3,000 the officials said.

From China, acall
to avoid chaos

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to the North Korean crisis,
China's president, Xi Jinping,
said Sunday that no one
country should be allowed to
create chaos that threatened
a region or the world.
As North Korea's major
ally, China has been discomforted by the behavior
of Kim Jong Un, but has
refrained from making

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may try
tonab an
asteroid

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According to tech experts the smartphone is evolving... into smart glasses, smart watches and more.
Some wearable gadgets already available include Google Glass, at $1,500 a pop, and Oakley Airwave
goggles for $599 with GPS and streaming audio.

deliver a speech onthegun
legislation.A6
By Patrick May
San Jose Mercury News

HISTORY
Highlight:In 1913, the 17th
Amendment to the Constitu-

tion, providing for popular election of United States senators

(as opposed to appointment by
state legislatures), was ratified.
In1820, the Venus de Milo stat-

ue was discovered by afarmer
on the Greekisland of Milos.
In1913,the Republic of Chi-

na's first parliament convened.
In1935, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the Emer-

You can wear your heart
on your sleeve. Why not your
electronics?
In a burgeoning trend that
has captivated Silicon Valley, a
mind-boggling array of "wearable electronics" has begun to
arrive, not just at a website or
clothing outlet near you, but
on an arm, a face, a wrist and
even a pinkie finger.
"Everyone's
re c o gnizing
that tech's next great, innovating chapter is more practical
and intimate use of computing
power in our everyday lives,"
said Scot Herbst with S an
Jose, Calif.-based design firm
Herbst Produkt. "And that
means not having to reach into
your pocket, grab your phone
and put in a p assword. It's
all about making computers
more organic in their interaction with you."
Hold on to your hats, which
also happen to be undergoing
digital makeovers of their own
with things like snowboard
helmets decked out with a pair

of $599Oakley Airwave goggles with GPS and streaming
audio. From Apple's rumored
iWatch to G o ogle's in-theworks eyeglass-like "Glass"
($1,500 for an early pilot version) to tech-embedded clothing from Uniqlo that uses the
body's evaporating moisture
to heat knee-high socks that
cost about $13 a pair, the wearable digital revolution is upon
us.

Cheaper technologies
"The trend is gaining momentum because the cost of
chips, along with sensors like

gyroscopes and heat- and
l ight-sensing d e vices, h a s
dropped dramatically," said
analyst Av i G r eengart, research director for consumer
devices at Current Analysis.
H e knows f i r sthand t h e
wonderful allure of this wearable technology. Greengart
uses it himself.
"Unlike a lot of bleedingedge tech, these things work,"
he said. "I have a Fitbit, which
is a little clip you put on your
belt, and it's a glorified pedometer. But it does much more,
and it makes it easy for me to
see how much physical activity I've had during the day, for
example, and that motivates
me to exercise even more."

Wearable electronics

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The
next giant leap in space exploration may be a short hop
on a small space rock.
This w e ek , P r esident
Barack Obama will request
$105 million in NASA's 2014
budget for a mission that
would capture a small asteroid, tug it near the moon,
and later send astronauts to
study it and grab samples.
The a steroid-capturing
robot could launch as soon
as 2017, with astronauts
flying to meet it near the
moon by 2021, according to
a NASA briefing presented
to Congress last week.
Thepresident's requestincludes $78 million for NASA
to develop technologies for
the project and $27 million

The glove
that calls home
Speaker onthe
thumb, microphone
on the pinkie;
'Nuff said

GOOGLE
GLASS
Coming soon: eyeglasses
that take photos and video

that you can immediately
share online, all with a few

taps of your finger or
the sound of
your voice
Medical bands: Strap

one on your
arm and measure

for beefing up the agency's

your heart rate and

a steroid-detection wo r k .
The mission would fulfill a
goal Obama set three years
ago to send astronauts to an
asteroid.
The mission would marry

cholesterol

IWATCH
Apple's muchrumored gadget

Accessorize
for access: Jewelry,
belts and
bracelets will
monitor

ongoing NASA projects, including asteroid detection,
robotic spacecraft development, the construction of
a giant new rocket — the
Space Launch Systemand the building of a deepspace human exploration
capsule called Orion. A noncrewed test launch of Orion
is set for next year.
By this summer, NASA is
to decide whether the project is feasible, according to
agency documents.
The human portion of the
mission would send people
b eyond Earth's orbit f or
the first time since the final
moon landing, in 1972.
Crews visiting the captured asteroid could conduct
experiments in extracting
water, oxygen, metals and
silicon, all valuable materials that would help future
astronauts "live off the land"

An army of engineers, fashion designers, futurists and
gadget geeks is hard at work,
trying to extend the reach of
computing power along those
p recious few i n c hes f r o m
pocket and purse to forearms
and ears.
At Intel Labs, user-experience researcher Cory Booth
said his team is looking even
beyond that, "past the nearterm fascination with specific
locations on the body, like
the wrist, to a more long-term
view. We see an entire new
ecosystem of devices that will
multiply over time and interact with one another."

By Brian Vastag

With chips shrinking and sensors becoming cheaper, personal computing is moving from that
smartphone in your pocket to your arm, your wrist, right out to your fingertips.

Paul Sakuma/The Assoaated Pressfile photo

Google co-founder Sergey Brin
demonstrates Google Glass
last year at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.

miles away.
"This remote collaboration
enables the expert t o h e lp
someone in the field solve a
complicated problem in real
time," Roberts s aid. "The
helmet'svideo camera capProcessing information
tures the generator, then the
Many o f
t h e s e g a dgets expert takes stills from the
will simply piggyback on the video and annotates them to
muscular computing p r owshow the guy which bolts to
ess available in the cloud, said remove to fix the generator.
Mike Roberts, an engineer This gives you expert advice
with PARC, a Xerox-founded anywhere in the world, and it's
research-and-development
all hands-free."
center in Palo Alto, Calif.
Over time, experts say,
Computers take the moun- consumers willbe dazzled by
tain of input from your dean assortment of electronic
vice, crunch it, and immedi- gear woven into their clothately suggest ways for you ing, strapped to their limbs,
to, say, improve your athletic wrapped as thin membranes
performance.
over their fingers, or hung
Roberts talked about one
from their belts. Challenges
very human application of
with wearable tech abound,
wearable technology, a beta from harnessing enough comversion of a h e ad-mounted puting power onto ultrathin
computer that PARC worked devices like pieces of tape to
on with Motorola Solutions. It persuading average consumconnects a user in the fielders to wear silly-looking glasssay, a sailor trying to fix a bro- es and bulky watches without
ken generator on a naval ship "nerding them out" too much.
— with an expert thousands of As futurist Paul Saffo puts it,

Technical
cha l l enges
abound, said former NASA
astronaut Rusty Schweickart, including finding the
right asteroid and figuring
out how to corral it. "One
big issue is how do you hold
on?" he said. "Frankly, nobody knows how to attach
to an asteroid. It's a blank
spot in our knowledge."

"I'm convinced the Segway
failed because no matter who
drove it, they looked like a
dork."
Cool tech toys are one thing,
but merging them with fashion raises all sorts of issues for
designers. Said Saffo, "Wearable technology is absolutely
the way we're heading, but the
secret is how designers work
out the details. The genius of
Apple is that it's a fashion company that also does tech. Look
at the iPhone — it's a beautiful
polished talisman, even when
it's just sitting there."

Building from what we have
John Edson, president of
San Francisco-based design
firm Lunar, said that with the
proliferation of these devices,
"my smartphone b ecomes
just the collector of all the data
coming from the sensors I've
got on me. Like the swipe and
pinch features on the iPad,
we're just starting to scratch
the surface of things we can
do with gestures."
Edson said test audiences
seem to love wearing the devices his firm has worked on
with BodyMedia. "Some of
these tools help users achieve
weight loss through a wearable sensor," he said. "They
have really proven algorithms
that can clearly and accurately
tell you about your calorie
burn, just by wearing a device that tracks a few different
body metrics."
T he road ahead will u n doubtedly be littered with the
detritus of wearable electronics that consumers will refuse

to wear. But engineers and
designers will keep throwing
ideas against the wall until
something sticks.
"You got the iPhone," said
PARC's M i k e
Kun i avsky,
"then you got the apps, and
now the apps are jumping off
the screen and becoming devices you can wear."

The Pegasus pipeline that
ruptured and s pilled thousands of gallons of tar sands
crude in M a y f lower, A r k .,
was 65 years old, and was initially built to carry thinner oil
at lowerpressure in the opposite direction than today.
But seven years ago, when
Exxon, the pipeline's operator, turned it into a higher-volume line for diluted bitumen
from Canada flowing under
greater pressure to refineries on the Gulf Coast, federal
rules did not require a permit
application or safety reviews,
according to federal officials.
" Our r e g u lations d o n ' t
specify how m uch p r oduct
a pipeline carries. There is
no regulation if t hey w a nt
to change the type of crude
they carry," said Damon Hill,
a spokesman for the Pipeline
and H a z ardous M a t erials
Safety Administration, a part
of the Transportation Department. "As far as reversing the
flow of a pipeline, it is not a
safety issue."
To reverse the line that runs
from Patoka, Ill., to Nederland, Texas, required 240,000
man-hours of work on pump
stations, valves, bypasses and
integrity tests, Exxon s aid
when it opened the line.
But only after the spill occurred did the agency step
in with an order, issued last
week, that clamps down on
the Pegasus pipeline, for example by limiting the pressure at which it may operate
once it reopens. Noting that
t he pipeline's flow was r eversed in 2006 so that it could
carry Canadian ta r s a n ds
crude 850 miles from Illinois
to Texas, the agency's corrective action order remarked
that "a change in the direction
of flow can affect the hydraulicand stress demands on the
pipeline." The pipeline was
first built in the late 1940s.
The Arkansas spill is roiling the national debate over
the Keystone X L p i p eline,
which if b u ilt w o uld carry
Canadian dilbit from Alberta
to Texas. But the spill also
brings into focus the growing
industry practice of reversing and repurposing existing
pipelines in order to transport
booming supplies of heavy

Natural Resources Defense
Council who studies pipeline
safety issues closely. "We have
a very lax and faulty regulatory

The problem with old pipes
Well over half the causes of significant onshore

hazardous-liquid pipeline incidents are due to material
failures and corrosion.

Hazardous-liquid pipeline infrastructure
In the U.S., by years built
Pre-1940s ~
1940s ~

7%
8
20
21

1960s

1969
or older
56%

16
1%Os ~
1900s ~
2000s ~

>
11
8

crude out of the tar sands region north of the border.

The Pegasus pipeline
The Exxon p ipeline that
burst was the first reversal of its
kind, a feat that Exxon called
"historic."
An investigation of the spill
near Mayflower is just begin-

ning, and the agency's order
blocks ExxonMobil from res uming shipments until t h e
cause is well understood and
any remedial actions are in
place. Nowthat there has been a
spill, amounting to an estimated
3,500 to 5,000 barrels, the agency will be watching closely.
"I find that continued operation of the Pegasus pipeline
without corrective measures
would be hazardous to life,
property, and t h e e n vironment," said the order, signed by
PHMSA's associate administrator for pipeline safety Jeffrey
Wiese.
He cited the age of the pipeline, the reversal of its flow,
and its location near water resources and populated areas.
The spill forced the evacuation
of about 21 homes and has endangered local water bodies.
Once the broken section of
pipe is dug up and examined,
and after results are known of

in-line tests conducted in February, a month before the spill,
further steps might be called
for before the flow through the
pipe can resume.
For example, the agency ordered pressure in the pipeline
to be reduced to 656 pounds per
square inch once operations
are allowed to resume, just 80
percent of the operating pressure of708 psimoments before
the rupture. At the time of the
reversal, the pipe was tested at
820psi.

construction and operation."
That certainly was not the
role the agency played when
the Pegasus pipeline was alcompanies have to
regime."
tered several years ago.
"PHMSA provides less of a
The safety problems of aging jump through.We
pipelines being used to carry
safety
net than a coroner's serhave a very lax and
new fuels havebeen recognized
vice," said Swift.
by the industry and its regula- faulty regulatory
The one thing the agency
tors for many years, and have regime."
has done is to request a thorbeen growing as the pipeline
ough review by the Transpornetwork has struggled to adjust — Anthony Swift, policy analyst tation Research Board, a unit
at the Natural Resources of the National Academies of
in recent years to the new flows
Defense Council Science, on the risks associated
of Canadian tar sands fuels.
One study by the National
with moving diluted bitumen
Petroleum Council for the Dethrough pipelines.
partment of Energy said that
and Gas Journal last year, "the
In a presentation to the re"integrity issues will become 2011 Act requires that PHMSA search board, PHMSA's Wimore common due to a num- postpone for at least two years ese saida thorough review is
ber ofage related issues," such issuance of final regulations, needed.
as corrosion and weld seam
if any." That means important
One of the slides he presentfailures.
changes might not be put in
ed said: "We strongly support a
"Pipelines operating outside place until 2015, if at all.
rigorous analysis of the unique
of their design parameters such
Changes in the rules that are risks associated with d i lbit
as those carrying commodities under review ought to affect the transportation. Threats posed
for which they were not initial- design, operation and corrosion by this different commodity rely designed, or high flow pipe- control practices totake account quire thorough understanding.
lines, are at the greatest risk
of the type of oil pipelines carry, Risk controls for these threats
of integrity issues in the future according t o
re c ommenda- must be robust."
due to the nature of their opera- tions filed with PHMSA by the
But the presentation made
tion," it said.
NRDC and five other environ- clear that the agency, which
mental groups two years ago.
has been searching for two deRules updates
In testimony at a House en- cades for the right regulatory
Last year, Transportation ergy subcommittee hearing approach, has more work to do.
"Major a ccidents a l most
Secretary Ray LaHood issued on June 16, 2011, the NRDC's
a pipeline safety update that
Swift recommended that PHM- always result in demands for
found the system "is aging and SA"should be actively engaged broader and more prescripneeds more attention."
in all stages of major pipeline tive regulations," another slide
But although he proposed, infrastructure d e v elopment, said. "But just responding to
and Congress passed, a pipe- including the environmental the last accident is not the best
line safety bill in 2011 after a review process, project design, regulatory strategy."
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pipes at higher pressures and
temperatures.
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considering a proposed new
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As much as a foot of snow
fell in parts of the Central OrContinued from A1
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for the Upper Deschutes and said the reservoirs are benCrooked River basins w as efiting this year from holdover
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time of year, according to the take more than one dry year to
Natural Resources Conserva- lead to a shortage of water for
tion Service. At the start of the irrigation.
month, it had been at 89 perIn the agriculture fields surcent of normal for that time of rounding Madras and Culver,
year and at the start of March growers have already started
it was at 91 percent for that planting carrots, said Richard
time of year.
Macy, a board member and
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District. As the canals start to
fill with water, or are already
full, he cautioned people not
to play on their banks or swim
in them as the weather gets
warmer.
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any shortages in the district.
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Sewer
Continued from A1
City officials have not decided on long-term solutions
to the sewer problems. A consultant for the city is also producing a new hydraulic model
of the sewer, which will for the
first time give the city a complete picture of how the system functions and how new
development will impact the
system. However, the model
will not be ready for use until
at least June, after voters have
already decided whether to
approve the school bond.

New school

capacity these improvement
projects will free up for new
development. The city is about
voters to approve a$96 million
bond to build two new schools and to begin designing the Coloupgrade other education facilities. rado Avenue project, which
Hickmann expects will take
Currently, the city of Bend sewer
six to nine months. Construcsystem is at capacity in some
areas. The district hopes to build a tion will likely take another
"Hopefully, a
new middle school on land it owns nine months.
year
from
now
we
are under
on Shevlin Park Road, outside the
construction,"
Hickmann
said.
city. The city and school district do
not know whether there is capacity Pros and cons
Bend-LaPine Schoolsis asking

Continued from A1
Over the next 75 t o 1 00
years, o c ean a c i d ification
could supersize blue crabs,
which may then eat more oysters and other organisms and
possibly throw the food chain
of the nation's largest estuary
out of whack.
That would undermine an
effort to rebuild the stocks of
both creatures. Virginia and

Maryland are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars
into rebuilding the p opulations of blue crabs and oysters
to some semblance of their
historic numbers.
The problem extends beyond crabs and the Chesap eake Bay. L o b sters a n d
shrimp are also bulking up
on carbon dioxide along the
Atlantic coast. Like oysters,
coral that helps protect small
organisms from big predators
is being adversely affected by
higher acidity in the waters.

Carbon and crabs
Crabs put away carbon like
nobody's business. The more
they eat, the faster they molt,
a growth spurt during which
their shells go soft. Carbon
helpsspeed the process so that

they emerge bigger and perhaps stronger,less vulnerable
to predators and more formidablepredators themselves.
At UNC, marine geologists
a re analyzing video of t h e
slaughter that took place when
they put mud crabs and oysters in tanks they intentionally polluted with carbon over
three months for a 2011 study.
It was like watching lions
tear apart lambs. The crabs
scurried from their side of the
tanks, banged on the shells of
the traumatized oysters, pried
them open with a claw in a
way similar to what humans
do with a knife at restaurants
and gobbled them down.
For crab l o v ers, b i gger
doesn'tnecessarily mean better. Carbon-absorbing crabs
put all their energy into upgrading shells, not flesh — like
a mansion without much furn iture. So diners might b e
disappointed years from now
when they crack open huge
crabs and find little meat.
The research showing the
effects of carbon on marine
organisms was published in
the journal Geology in 2009.
The study, led by Ries and
co-authored with A nne Cohen and D a niel M cCorkle,

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Henry said the $36.9 million
middle school c onstruction
budget includes$700,000 for
Proposed location
off-site construction, which
for new middle school
could include street and sewer
connections. The school disWorking together
trict also budgeted $6.3 million
City and school district ofin soft costs such as permits
ficials said they have been disand development fees for the
cussing sewer infrastructure
project, and if that comes in
and other school planning
under budget, the remainder
issues. Brad Henry, chief opcould help cover sewer work,
erations and financial officer
Henry said.
for Bend-La Pine Schools, said p Sh evnn
The school district is still
sewer problems should not
Park
considering multiple sites for
prove a roadblock for school
the elementary school. "We're
construction.
trying to relieve pressure from
AndyZeigert/Ttte Bulletin
"We've heard they'redefia lot of different places," said
n itely willing to w ork w i t h consultants wrote that if the
Brian Rankin, the principal
us to make a school happen," city did not significantly implanner for the city.
Henry said. "While i n fra- prove its sewer system, it could
R ankin i s m e eting w i t h
structure is a concern across soon face "a hydraulic defieducation officials to discuss
the city and we're a big user, ciency beginning at the West- potential school construction
we haven't heard that from the side Pump Station and going sites. "We've been helping
city where we should be con- downstream, and potentially
them with the pros and cons
cerned about getting a school backing up into the collection of different sites," Rankin said
built.... We're working with
system upstream of the West- in March. "They are starting to
the city to come up with some side Pump Station."
work with the city — so plan"We c ertainly h av e c a - ning staff, transportation staff
estimates and what would be
the best way to get those utili- pacity challenges based on and engineering staff — to find
ties to that site, and what's best the work that's been done to the best site.... I'm not aware
for the overall infrastructure." date downstream of the loca- of us running any sewer analyIf the district builds a mid- tion (near Shevlin Park) that
sis for any of the potential sites
dle school near Shevlin Park, they're looking at, but they're they're looking at."
"It can be a deal killer in
wastewater from the school will aware of t h at," H i ckmann
flow to the city sewer through a said. "We've been talking to
some cases, or it can really
line downhill to a nearby pump them about that, and they're add to the expense if you don't
station, Hickmannsaid. Howev- also aware that we are curhave capacity there," Rankin
er, whether that existing pump rently in this (sewer collection said of
sewer capacity.
station can handle the sewage system master plan) process
Henry said the school disfrom a school is u nknown, in which we are refining our
trict does not want to waste
Hickmann said. There are oth- existing hydraulic model and the city's time by requesting
er problems fartherdown the really making it much, much detailed sewer i n f ormation
line. In a 2011 addendum to the more accurate but that's not
before it has selected school
city sewer master plan, consul- done yet."
sites.
"Until we're 100 percent on
tants for the city wrote that "the
Hickmann said short-term
results of field testing indicate sewer fixes the city is plana site, we're reluctant to ask
that the Westside Pump Station ning "might end up improving them to do a lot of work for us,
has limited available capacity the situation for (the school although I think they're very
for future growth as currently district)." However, since the willing to do that," Henry said.
designed."
new sewer model is not yet
— Reporter:541-617-7829,
Later in the document, the ready, it is unclear how much
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and found that crabs, lobsters
and shrimp grew biggermore
rapidly as carbon pollution
increased. Chesapeake blue
crabs grew nearly four times
faster in h igh-carbon tanks
than in low-carbon tanks.
But under the same conditions, oysters, scallops and
other organisms struggle to
grow, making them more vulnerableto carnivores. Oysters
in high-carbon tanks grew at
only one-quarter the speed
they did in low-carbon conditions, according to the study.
"It's taking them longer to
go from oyster spat to oyster
adult," said Luke Dodd, a doctoral candidate at UNC who
put the crabs in a tank with
oysters. "When you're a baby,
there's tons of predators that
want to eat you up."
B ut when they pu t m u d
crabs and oysterstogether in
the tanks polluted with carbon, Dodd, Michael Piehler of
UNC and Jonathan Grabowski of N o r theastern University observed something they
didn't expect, a response that
gave oysters a prayer.
Under conditions with lower levels of carbon, two mud
crabs polished off20 oysters
in six hours. But in the aquariums with higher levels of carbon, the mud crabs seemed
confused.
They went over to the oysters, but they didn't eat as
many — s o metimes fewer
than half of what other crabs
ate under normal conditions.
Dodd scratched hi s h e ad.
"Acidification may be confusing the crab," he said. The situation, he concluded, "is more
complicated than you'd be led
to believe."
Ries said crabs might be
getting loopy from all that carbon in their systems, depriving
them of oxygen and putting
them in a fog.
Both researchers said that
acidification happens so slowly that crabs may eventually
grow more accustomed to it.
"You can't discount evolution
taking over," Dodd said.

Oysters in despair
The Chesapeake Bay oyster certainly doesn't need any
more bad news. Two diseases,
Dermo and MSX, origin unknown, have killed them by
the bushelfor decades. That
and overfishing have dramatically reduced their numbers,
officials said.
Recently, the critter showed
signs ofa modest recovery in

Virginia and Maryland. Virginia, which harvested only
79,600 bushels ofoysters in
2005, racked up about 236,200
bushels in 2011, the most since
1989. Maryland had 26,400
bushels in 2005 but hauled in
121,200 bushels in 2011.
Oysters ar e f i l te r f e e ders that play a critical role
in cleaning the polluted bay.
"One hundred years ago, the
b ay wa s c r y stal-clear b ecause they filtered it every
three weeks, as opposed to
every three years today," Ries
sa>d.
That is one of several reasons why the two states recently launched all-out offensives to protect bay oysters.
Virginia created huge sanctuaries in public waters such
as the Rappahannock River
where watermen are allowed
to harvest oysters on a rotati ng basis about every t w o
years. The state also strongly
encourages private aquaculture, selling plots of riverbed
or bayfloor to oyster farmers
for $1.50 an acre.
Maryland has poured $50
million into its oyster recovery
effortover the past 16 years.
The state now forbids oyster
harvesting on a quarter of the
bars where they grow, protecting them with a fine of up to
$25,000 and 15 years in prison.
Maryland is only beginning to
develop aquaculture.
But along with the oyster,
the bay blue crab is making a
comeback. In the last winter
dredge survey, an annual population count funded by the
two states, crab numbers were
up 66 percent from 2003.
The Chesapeake Bay Program — the regional partnership trying to restore the bay
— called it a baby boomlet,
with an increase from 207 million juvenile crabs in 2011 to
587 million the next year. The
population jumped after Virginia closed its winter dredge
season, w h e n w at e r men
dragged heavy metal traps in
rivers at a time when mostly
f emales were preparing t o
reproduce.
The season remains closed,
all but ensuring more crabs
— and more hungry mouths
to feed on mussels, clams and
the bay oyster.
Under ocean acidification,
oysters won't be able to keep
Up.
"As you're using up your energy, it could make you more
vulnerable not just to predators
but to disease," Dodd said.

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WASHINGTON — The days
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Dahead could be decisive ones Md., called this predicament
for the main pieces of President Obama's "Catch-22." And Sen.
Barack Obama's second-term Mark Warner, D-Va., said he
agenda: long-range deficit re- had often seen it at work since
duction, gun safety and chang- 2010 while negotiating with Rees to immigration law.
publican lawmakers to reach a
With Congress back this
long-term budget agreement.
week from arecess,bipartisan
At times, Warner said, Regroups of senators who have publicans would urge him to
been negotiating about immi- get Obama more involved, saygration and gun violence are ing, "Gosh, Warner, we've got
due to unveil their agreements, to have the president." Other
though prospects for a gun deal times, he said, the same laware in question as the emotional makers would plead otherwise,
impact of the massacre in New- saying, "If the president comes
town, Conn., has faded and the out for this, you know it is going
National Rifle Association has to kill us in the House."
"Everybody wants him inmarshaled opposition. And on
Wednesday, Obama will send volved to the right degree at the
his annual budget to Capitol right moment," Warner said,
Hill intended as a compromise "but not any time before or
offer, though early signs sug- after."
gest that Republican leaders
The challenge for Obama
have little interest in reviving became evident as soon as he
talks.
took offi
ce, when Republicans
Members of both parties say almost unanimously opposed
Obama faces a conundrum his economic stimulus packwith his legislative approach to age even as the recession was
a deeply polarized Congress. erasing nearly 800,000 jobs a
In the past, when he has stayed month.
aloof from legislative action,
Now the president's three
Republicans and others have pending priorities are shaping
accused him of a lack of lead- up as test cases for how he and
ership; when he has gotten in- Republicans will work together
volved,they have complained — or not — in his second term.
that they could not support any
Each measure — on the budbill so closely identified with get, guns and immigration — in
New York Times News Service

its own way illustrates the fine
line that Obama must walk
to succeed even with national
opinion on his side. Privately,
the White House is optimistic
only about the prospects for an
immigration bill, which would
create a path to citizenship for
about 11 million people in the
country illegally.
That is because an immigration compromise is the only
one thatRepublicans see as being in their own interests, given
their party's unpopularity with
the fast-growing Latino electorate. In contrast, most Republicans see little advantage
in backing gu n l e gislation,
given hostility toward it in their
states or in districts throughout
the South and the West and in
rural areas.
A budget compromise would
require agreeing to higher taxes, which are anathema to conservativevoters, in exchange
for Obama's support for the
reductions in Medicare and Social Security that they want.
Against t h i s bac k drop,
Obama early on outlined elements he wanted in the immigration and gun measures.
T hen he purposely left t h e
drafting to Congress. Senior
aides, mainly the chief of staff,
Denis McDonough, and the
deputy chief of staff, Rob Nabors, check in daily with sena-

tors. Vice President Joe Biden
stays in touch with his former
Senate colleagues about the
gun bill talks.
On i m migration, Obama
had wanted to propose his own
measure because he had promised Latino groups he would
do so. But Senate Democrats
advised against it, fearing an
"Obama bill" would scare off
Republicans.
While Obama is said to be
actively involved in the immigration talks behind the scenes
because of that bill's better
odds, on gun measures like
tighter background checks of
firearms purchasershe is waging his fight mostly in public
settingsfar from Washington.
On Monday he will travel to
Connecticut to meet again with
the families of those killed in
the school shooting in Newtown last year.
On the budget,Obama has
tried both strategies — negotiating personally with Speaker
John Boehner on a "grand bargain" for taxes and entitlementprogram reductions, and when
that failed, letting Congress try,
which also failed. Now, with the
bipartisan effort moribund, the
president has decided he has no
option but to publicly take the
lead to revive negotiations with

hopes of drawing some Republican support.

Cursive
Continued from A1
And educators, seeking to
prepare students for a successful future in which computer
and typing skills have usurped
penmanship, are finding cursive's relevance waning, especially with leaner school budgets and curricula packed with
standardized testing prep. So
they're opting not to teach it
anymore.
"It's seeing the writing on
the wall," said Patricia Granada, principal at Eagle View
Elementary in Fairfax County,
Va. "Cursive is increasingly
becoming obsolete."
Michael Hairston, president
of the Fairfax Education Association, the largest teachers
union in the county, called cursive "a dying art."
" Cursive writing is a t r aditional skill that has been
replaced w it h t e c hnology,"
Hairston said. "Educators are
having to make choices about
what they teach with a limited
amount of time and little or no
flexibility. Much of their instructional time is consumed
with teaching to a standardized test."
Since 2010, 45 states and the
District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core standards, which do not require
cursive instruction but leave
it up to the individual states
and districts to decide whether
they want to teach it. A report
the same year by the MiamiDade public school system
found that cursive instruction
has been slowly declining nationwide since the 1970s.
"The Common Core State
Standards allow communities
and teachersto make decisions
at the local level about how to
teach reading and writing... so
they can teach cursive if they
think it's what their students
need," said Kate Dando, a
spokeswoman for the Council
of Chief State School Officers,
which promotes the Common
Core. "The standards define
the learning targets that need
to be met to ensure students
graduate from h ig h s chool
prepared for success in college
and careers.... The decision
to include cursive when teaching writing is left to states, districts, schools and teachers."
Proponents of cursive say
that many of the country's historical documents were written in the fancy script, including the Constitution and the
Declaration ofIndependence.
They say that future historians
who lack the ability to read cursive might not be able to study
original historical documents.
Steve Graham, an education
professor at Arizona State University and one of the top U.S.
experts on h andwriting i nstruction,
said he has heard every argument for and against
cursive.
"I have to tell you, I can't remember the last time I read the
Constitution," Graham said.
"The truth is that cursive writing is pretty much gone, except
in the adult world for people in
their 60s and 70s."

Photos by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post

One school that still requires students to learn cursive writing is St. Francis International School in
Silver Spring, Md., where penmanship is rated on report cards through eighth grade. Here, Pamela
Romero shows off her signature.

Fourth-grader Samuen Nguyen practices cursive at St. Francis
International School in Maryland. "Cursive is traditionally a very
Catholic school subject," Principal Tobias Harkieroad said.
He said that today's teachers
value typing more than handwriting and that by the 12th
grade, about half of all papers
are composed on computers.
"When you think about the
world in the 1950s, everything
was by hand. Paper and pencil," Graham said. "Right now,
it's a hybrid world."
Graham said the argument
for keeping cursive around
centers more on tradition than
practicality.
"What I typically hear for
keeping cursive is how nice it is
when you receive a beautifully
cursive-written letter. It's like a
work of art," Graham said. "It's
pretty, but is that a reason for
keeping something, given that
we do less and less of those
kinds of cards anymore?"
D eborah Spear, a n a c ademic therapist based in Great
Falls, Va., said cursive writing
is an integral part of her work
with students who have dyslexia. Because all letters in cursive start on a base line, and
becausethe pen moves fluidly
from left to right, cursive is
easier to learn for dyslexic students who have trouble forming words correctly.
"You will find people who
say, 'Why teach cursive anymore because we have keyboarding,'" said Spear, who
taught special education in
Fairfax, Va., before starting
her own b usiness in 2009.
"They'll say, 'Who cares if my
kid can read Grandma's letters
when Grandma is beginning
to Skype anyway.' Yes, need-

ing to read cursive is greatly
diminishing in our society, but
it's still very applicable as an
instructional tooL"
Several states have tried to
resurrect cursive writing. California, Georgia and Massachusetts have laws mandating cursive instruction, and last month,
legislators in Idaho passed a
bill instructing the state Board
of Education to include cursive
in the curriculum.
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Laura Dinehart, an education professor at Florida International University, recently
conducted a study that found
that children with neater handwriting developed better reading and math skills than their
chicken-scratch peers.
According to a 2006 College
Board report, SAT essays written in cursive received a slightly higher score than those
written in block print. But only
15 percent of the essays were
written in cursive.
At Broad Acres Elementary
in Silver Spring, Md., students
receive minimal cursive instruction, reading specialist
Liz Fasulo said. The children
spend more time learning to
read it than write it.
"We don't want them to be
boxed out of it," Fasulo said.
At St . F r a ncis I n t ernational S c h ool, w h i c h i s
acrossthe street from Broad
Acres, cursive receives more
prominence.
"Cursive is traditionally a
very Catholic school subject,"
Principal Tobias Harkleroad
said, noting that penmanship
is rated on students' report
cards through eighth grade.

Continued from A1
It is quickly converted by
the liver into yet another little-studied chemical called
TMAO that gets into the
blood andincreases the risk
of heart disease.
The questions that morning were: Would a burst of
TMAO show up in peoples'
blood after they ate steak?
And would the same thing
happen to a vegan who had
not had meat for at least a
year and who consumed the
same meal?
The answers were: Yes,
there was a TMAO burst in
the five meat-eaters and no,
the vegan did not have it.
And TMAO levels turned
out to predict heart attack
risk in h u mans, the r esearchers found.
The r esearchers a l so
found that T M A O a ctually caused heart disease
in mice. Additional studies
with 23 v egetarians and
vegans and 51 meat-eaters
showed that m e at-eaters
normally had more TMAO
in their blood and that they,
unlike those who spurned
meat, readily made TMAO
after swallowing pills with
the chemical transformed
by the bacteria, carnitine.
"It's really a b e autiful
combination of mouse studies and human studies to
tell a story I find quite plausible," said Dr. Daniel Rader,
a heart disease researcher
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
who was not involved in the
research.
Researchers say the work
could lead to new treatments
for heart disease — perhaps
even an antibiotic to specifically wipe out the bacterial
culprit — and also to a new
way to assess heart disease
risk by looking for TMAO in
the blood.
Critical questions remain.
Would people reduce their
heart attack risk if they lowered their blood TMAO levels? An association between
TMAO levels in the blood
and heart disease risk does
not necessarily mean that
one causes the other. And
which gut bacteria in particular are the culprits?
There also are questions
about the safety of supplements, like energy drinks
and those used in b ody
building. Such supplements
often contain carnitine, a
substance found mostly in
redmeat.
But t h e
i n v estigators'
extensive experiments in
both humans and animals,
published Sunday in Nature
Medicine, have persuaded
scientists no t c o n nected
with the study to seriously
consider this new theory of
why red meat eaten too often might be bad for people.
Dr. Frank Sacks, a professor of cardiovascular
disease prevention at the
Harvard School of Public

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Health, called the findings impressive. "I don't have any reason to doubt it, but it is kind of
amazing."
The study does not mean that
red meat is entirely bad or that
it is best to avoid it entirely, said
Hazen. Meat contains protein
and B vitamins, which are both
essential for health. But the
study's findings indicated that
the often-noticed association
between red meat consumption
and heart disease risk might
be related to more than just the
saturated fat and cholesterol.
Hazen, the chairman of the
department of cellular and molecular medicine at the Lerner
Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic, began his research
five years ago with a scientific
fishing expedition.
In a study of 10,000 patients
who came to the Cleveland
Clinic for evaluations and were
at risk for heart disease, the patients agreed to provide blood
samples and to be followed so
the researchers would know if
any of them had a heart attack
or died of heart disease in the
three years after the first visit.
Those samples enabled Hazen
to look for small molecules in
the blood to see whether any
were associated with heart attacks or deaths.
That study and a series of additional experiments led to the
discovery that a red meat substance no one had suspected
— carnitine — seemed to be a
culprit. It is also found in many
foods, Hazen noted, including
fish and chicken and even dairy
products, but in small amounts.
Red meat, he said, is the major
source.
The researchers found that
carnitine was not dangerous by
itself. Instead, the problem arose
whenitwasmetabolizedbybacteria in the intestines and ended
up as TMAO in the blood. That
led to the steak-eating study. It
turned out that within a couple
of hoursof a regular meat-eater
having a steak, TMAO levels in
the blood soared.
The r esearchers' t h eory,
based on their laboratory studies, is that TMAO enables cholesterol to get into artery walls
and also prevents the body
from excretingexcess cholesterol. He said he worries about
carnitine-containing e n e rgy
drinks. Carnitine often is added
to the drinks on the assumption
that it will speed fat metabolism
and increase a person's energy
level, Hazen said.
Dr. Robert Eckel, a professor
of medicine at the University of
Colorado and a past president
of the American Heart Association, worried about how carnitine might be affecting bodybuilders and athletes who often
take it because they believe it
builds muscle.
Those supplements, Hazen
said, "are scary, especially for
our kids."

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Jacob Norris, of Bend, shows Nico Parker-Norris, his 6-year-old son, a shape he cut out of clay while making magnets
Sunday at Cindercone Clay Center in Bend. The clay shapes will be fired in a kiln and then affixed to magnets that will allow
them to be worn like a button or placed on a fridge or other metal surface.

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While the designs and messages
may have been different, the ceramic art produced at a Sunday workshop in Bend all had the same point:
"For people to be reminded that we
only have one Earth," said Dana
B artus,
who leads classes for kids at
Cindercone Clay Center,where the
event took place.
A handful o f a d u lts an d k i d s
showed up for the workshop, during
which they made coaster-sized creations that will be made into Earth
Day magnets.
The makers of the magnets kept
some for themselves, and others
will be sold at a booth at the 14th
annual Earth Day Parade on April
20. Staging for the parade will start
at 10:30 a.m. that day on Louisiana
Avenue next to McMenamins Old
St. Francis School, according to The
Environmental Center, lead organizers of the event. Earth Day itself
is April 22.
Bartus said all proceeds from the
magnet art sales will go to The Environmental Center, a Bend-based
nonprofit that runs environmental
education programs for everything
from schools to businesses.
During the workshop, the adults
and kids cut out shapes from flattened clay with cookie cutters. The
adults added Earth Day-themed slo-

Three-year-old Ori Parker-Norris, of Bend, cuts shapes out of a piece of clay at
the Sunday workshop he attended with his parents and siblings.
gans to some of them, such as "Eat
Local D andelions," " Plant M o r e
Trees" and "We Love Air."
Paint was then added to the crea tions, which w il l b e f i r e d i n a
kiln later this week. Once they've
cooled, Bartus said she plans to glue
magnets to them. The magnets will
allow people to wear them like a
campaign button on shirts or post
them on refrigerators or other metal
surfaces.
Attending the event cost $15, with

the money paying for materials and
the firing of the kiln, Bartus said.
Although the point of the art was
to make aneveryday reminder about
the Earth, the kids at the workshop
focused on enjoying the day, said
Chad Fox, co-founder of Cindercone
Clay Center and a ceramics instructor there.
"They are just cutting out and
playing with it — having fun with
clay," Fox said.
SeeMagnets/A8

The Bend Police Department
will begin providing to the
public a monthly accountability
report that identifies key crime
and budget statistics.
Bend Police Chief Jeff Sale
and City Manager Eric King
say the report, which will serve
as a snapshot of how the police
department is spending its time
and money, will allow the department and the city to figure
out where best to focus resources and show the public how the
department operates.
King said the monthly report
will allow the community to
make informed decisions about
acceptable levels of service, and
he hopes the report can be a
communication tool that lets "decision-makers in our community
know what's the data behind
the activity of the police department, how it all relates together
and how funding correlates to
crime."
Sale said he uses the monthly
reports as an administrative tool
but will also have them on the
department's website and will
send them to a distribution list.
"It's a quick overview of the
department," he said. "It gives
supervisors and managers a
quick look and helps them organize.... It puts it out in front of
everyone."
Right now, the report is focused primarily on the patrol
division, but plans are in the
works to expand it to include
other parts of the department,
such as investigations.
King hopes the reports, to be
issued on the second Wednesday
of each month, will allow the
community to see what types of
calls officers are responding to
and to understand better why
different incidents have different
police responses. He also hopes
the reports will allow police to
make a more focused effort on
types ofcrime or areas of the
city that need the most help.
"It allows us to manage our
resources rather than running
around," he said. "We're trying
to get away from that Whac-AMole typeof response."
For example, if there is a spike
in assaults in the downtown area
at 2 a.m. each Saturday, police
can then focus on patrolling that
area at that time.
An 11-page February accountability review starts with a list of
budget highlights, including how
much overtimeofficers have
earned thus far during the fiscal
year, as well as how much money was spent on training, vehicle
maintenance and fuel, and
other supplies and equipment. It
includes comparisons from the
previous year and shows what
percentage of the total budget
has been used up.
SeePolice/A8

was an Army infantryman who
served in the Pacific campaign
of World War II, helping take

The U.S. Forest Service has
taken longer than expected
to complete a draft environmental review of Bend's $68
million Bridge Creek water

supply project.
The delay will likely force
the city to change its work
schedule again, and that could
raise the project cost, according to the city.
The Bridge Creek project
already faced delays during a
previousfederal environmental review and when opponents sued to stop it last year.
The city changed part of its
plan and reapplied in December for
Forest Serviceapproval
of the project, this time with a
proposalto keep the current
cap on the amount of water
the city can take from Bridge

Creek and Tumalo Creek.
The Forest Service had
initially estimated that a draft
of this environmental assessment wouldbe ready for
public comment at the end of
February.
Instead, the earliest the
draft will be available to the
public is in the coming week,
Deschutes National Forest
spokeswoman Jean NelsonDean wrote in an email.
"In this circumstance, given
the previous litigation, there is
a desire to make sure that the
analysis is fully documented
and people have had the opportunity to review and make
changes if necessary," NelsonDean wrote.
The Forest Service has completed the draft environmental
document but is waiting for
officials in Washington, D.C.,

to determine whether the Deschutes National Forest should
follow a new process to gather
public input or stick with the
old one.
The Bridge Creek project
will replace the current water
intake facility and two old
pipelines — one that is roughly 90 years old and another
that is approximately 60 years
old — with a single new pipe.
The project also includes
a new water treatment plant
to remove or deactivate the
parasite cryptosporidium,
although that part of the project has slowed while the City
Council considers whether to
change the type of treatment
technology.
Bridge Creek Project Manager Heidi Lansdowne said
changes to the schedule will
increase cost. City employees

hoped to build the pipe crossing at Tumalo Creek this fall,
and then install the pipeline
downhill along Skyliners
Road. This would mean the
upper section of pipe would be
in the ground before the snow
falls, Lansdowne said.
"We probablywon't make
the creekcrossing this year
with the delay in the (environmental assessment)," Lansdowne said.
Instead, the city will likely
ask the contractor to first
install the pipeline under
Skyliners Road in order to
finish that work by Deschutes
County's deadline.
The city is trying to install a
section of new pipeline under
Skyliners Road by 2014, when
the county plans to rebuild the
road in time to qualify for federal funding. If the city misses

that window, it could cost as
much as $2.9 million to resurface the road.
However, county Road
Department Director Chris
Doty has said county officials
are reluctant to even discuss
allowing the city to cut into a
road that has yet to be built.
After the pipe is installed
under the road, the city can
move on tothe creek crossing
in late summer or fall 2014.
"Really the only time we
can work in Tumalo Creek is
the summer and early fall,"
Lansdowne said. The Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife sets the "work windows"
when work can occur in
streams, in order to minimize
impacts on fish and other
organisms.
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sonalities," he said.
Jasper sat in his mom's lap
Contlnued from A7
during much of the time his
The eldest two boys in the
brothers were working. Laura
Parker-Norris f a m i ly f r o m
Parker, 31, the boys' mother,
wasn't surprised how t h e y
Bend eagerly tackled the task
of making clay into magnet
took to the clay.
" They are d e finitely b i g
art.
getting messy while playing,
Nico an d Or i pr o d u ced saidJacob Norris,29,father of Play-Doh guys," she said.
around 100 clay designs. The Nico, 6, Ori, 3, and Jasper, 1.
— Reporter: 541-617-7812,
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(costs) because I'm not going
to give them extra cash," Sale
saKL
The report also includes a
monthly crime activity overview, focused entirely on violent crimes ranging from theft
and arsonto burglary and rape.
The February document shows
how the month's crimes compare to January 2013, as well as
to February 2012 and also provides a year-to-date look at the
number and type of crimes.
Sale said he then asks a data
analyst to delve deeper into areas of concern.
The report also includes a
look at other metrics, including how many calls for service

dinosaurs to a knight.
"I'm ready to paint this one,"
Nico proudlyannounced after
finishing his medieval magnet
art.
The hands-on work was ideal for the boys, who don't mind

the department receiveseach
month, how many arrests and
citations the police are making
each month, and how many
caraccidents take place each
month.
The re ports ar e a l r eady
revealing. For example, the
data reveal that so far in 2013,
violent crime is up 29 percent
from the same time in 2012.
And calls for service are down
significantly n o w t h a t t h e
police department has implemented online crime reports.
Ultimately, Sale hopes his
managers will closely examine the daily operations of the
department more closely.
"We want to use it as an
evaluation tool that shows successes or failures and identifies if we're doing what we
want to do," he said.
King said th at wh i le t h e

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police department is the first
to implement the accountability reports, other city departments will also start creating
similar reports that place an
emphasis on what he ca lls
"performance metrics."
Once the public safety accountability r eport i s f i n e tuned, King plans to work on
similar reports about in frastructure and economic and
community development.
Those re ports wi l l a l s o
compare Bend to other cities,
including Oregon cities with
similar populations like Beaverton, Medford and Gresham, and ci ties around t h e
West that have similar demographic data, like Bozeman,
Mont.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; and St.
George, Utah.
— Reporter: 541-617-7831,
smiller@bendbulletin.com

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Nielsen's senior vice president
By Ryan Nakashima
of insights, Dounia Turrill, says
The Associated Press
part of the new monitoring reLOS ANGELES — Some
gime is meant to help determine
people have had it with TV.
whether they'll change their
They've had enough of the 100behavior over time. "As these
plus channel universe. They
homes change life stage, what
don't like timing their lives
will happen to them'?"
around network show schedThe TV industry has a host
ules. They're tired of $100-plus
of buzzwords to describethese
non-traditionalist
view e r s.
monthly bills.
A growing number of them
There are "cord-cutters," who
have stopped paying for cable
stop paying for TV completely,
and satellite TV service, and
and make do with online video
don't even use an antennato get
The Associated Press
and sometimes an antenna.
freesignals over the air.These Truck driver James Weitze takes a self-portrait with his iphone that There are "cord-shavers," who
people are watching shows and provides the bulk of his TV-watching fix. Weitze says it would be
reducethe number of channels
movies on the Internet, some- difficult for him to go back to a traditional TV setup.
they subscribe to, or the numtimes via cellphone connecber of rooms pay TV is in, to
tions. Last month, the Nielsen
save money.
Co. started labeling people in enue from Zero TV viewers will president of insights.
Then there are the "cord-nevthis group "Zero TV" house- be zero.
The Zero TV segment is in- ers," young people who move
" Getting b r o adcast p r o - creasingly important, because out on their own and never set
holds, because they fall outside
the traditional definition of a
graming on al l t h e g i zmos the number of people signing up a landline phone connection
TV home. There are 5 million of and gadgets — like tablets, the up for traditional TV service or a TV subscription. They usuthese residences in the U.S.,up backseatsof cars, and laptops has slowed to a standstill in the ally make do with a broadband
from 2 million in 2007.
— is hugely important," says U.S.
Internet connection, a computWinning back the Zero TV
Dennis Wharton, a spokesman
Last year, the cable, satellite er, a cellphone and possibly a
crowd will be one of the many for the National Association of and telecoms providers added TV set that is not hooked up the
issuesbroadcasters discuss at Broadcasters.
just 46,000 video customers col- traditional way.
That's the label given to the
their national meeting, called
For the first time, TV ratings lectively, according to research
the NAB Show, taking place giant Nielsen took a close look firm SNL Kagan. That is tiny group by Richard Schneider,
this week in Las Vegas.
at this category of viewer in its when compared to the 974,000 the president and founder of the
While show creators and
quarterly video report released new households created last online retailer Antennas Direct.
networks make money from in March. It plans to measure year.
The site is doing great business
this group's viewing habits their viewing of new TV shows
Nielsen's study suggests that selling antennas capable of acthrough deals with online video starting this fall, with an eye to- this new group may have left cepting free digital signals since
providers and from advertis- ward incorporating the results traditional TV for good. While the nation's transition to digital
ing on their own websites and in the formula used to calculate three-quarters actually have a over-the-air
broadcasts in 2009,
apps, broadcasters only get
adrates.
physical TV set, only 18 percent and is on pace to sell nearly
"Our commitment is to be- are interested in hooking it up 600,000 units this year, up from
paid when they relay such programming in traditional ways. ing able to measure the content through a traditional pay TV
a few dozen when it started in
Unless broadcasters can adapt wherever it is," says Dounia subscription.
2003.
to modern platforms, their rev- Turrill, Nielsen's senior vice
Zero TVers tend to be youngWhile the "cord-nevers" are

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Dear Abby: I have been in a rel ationship with th e man o f m y
dreams for five years. Everything
is great between us except for one

huge thing — we are no longer
intimate.
I h av e r e cently
come to the realization that t hi s i sn't
DEAR
the first time I have
ABBY
had thi s p r oblem.
I always thought it
was an issue with
the relationship, but now I suspect
it may be linked to molestation I
suffered when I was a child. At that
time I was told "people who love
you don't touch you like that." Logically I know this is different, but
my partner tells me I just freeze up
when we are together.
I think I need professional help,
but I'm embarrassed and don't
know where to start. Do I need a
therapist? How do I locate a good
one in my area?
— Reaching Out in Cleveland
Dear Reaching Out: Please ac-

cept my sympathy. Considering
your history, what you're experiencing is understandable, and yes,
you need to talk to a therapist. The
therapy should have started at the
time you were molested. To find a

"good one," ask your physician to
refer you to several so you can find
a person you feel comfortable talking with.
Please do not be embarrassed to
be frank, because most therapists
have heard everything. It i sn't t heir

job to judge you, only
to help you. None of
this was your fault,
and your problem is
fixable.
Dear Abby:My husband, kids and
I moved out of state seven years
ago, leaving behind our extended
families. Now, whenever we plan a
vacation in our home state, we encounter the same issues. The first is
trying to accommodate everyone's
schedule into our own. The second is dividing our time between

my family and my husband's. (His
family is smaller than mine.)
Is it fair to divide the time in
half — half for his family and half
for mine — even though I have so
many more relatives on my list? Or
should we divide our time by the
number of households we need to
see'? These issues cause my husband and meto argue, and itm akes
what is supposed to be a vacation
very unpleasant. I already feel like

canceling the trip.
— Vacation Issues
Dear Vacation Issues: A solution
would be to have two large family
get-togethers — one for your family
and one for his — during your visit.
Then, if you want to visit with the relatives from the two branches of the
families individually, you can "divide
and conquer." He can spend as much
time as he wishes with his relatives,
and you can spend time with yours.
Dear Abby:Every year my workplace sponsors a community blood
drive. I am invariably asked by coworkers if I am going to donate. Because I am HIV-positive, I answer
no. Then the person asks me why.
Abby, it is n o one's business.
There could be many reasonsranging from health to religious to
personal. Or a person may simply
not want to donate.
I would give if I could. Please ask
your readers not to question others about whether they will donate
blood. Have you any suggestions
about how I should respond'?
— On the Job inIdaho
Dear On the Job:A polite deflection would be to make light of it by
saying, "I just don't."
— Write to Dear Abby at dearabby.com
or P0. Box69440,Los Angeles, CA 90069

a target market for him, the
category is also troubling. More
people are raised with the power of the Internet in their pocket,
and don't know or care that you
can pull TV signals from the air
for free.
"They're more aware of Netflix than they're aware over-theair is even available," Schneider
says.
That brings us to truck driver
James Weitze. The 31-year-old
satisfies his video fix with an
iPhone. He often sleeps in his
truck and has no apartment. To
be sure, he's an extreme case
who doesn't fit into Nielsen's
definition of a h ousehold in
the first place. But he's watch-

ing Netflix enough to keep up
with shows like "Weeds," "30
Rock," "Arrested Development,"
"Breaking Bad," "It's Always
Sunny in P hiladelphia" and
"Sons of Anarchy."
He's not opposed to TV per se,
and misses some ESPN sports
programs like the r X Games."
But he's so divorced from
the traditional TV ecosystem it
could be hard to go back. It's become easier for him to navigate
his smartphone than to figure
out how to use a TV set-top box
and the button-laden remote
control.
"I'm prettytech savvy, but the
TV industry with the cable and
the television and the boxes,
you don't know how to use their
equipment," he says. "I try to go
over to my grandma's place and
teach her how to do it. I can't
even figure it out myself."

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APRIL 8, 2013:This yearyou wil
express yourself in an assertive and clear
manner, and you'll see excellent results.
Still, you might become reclusive for short
periods of time. Know that with your high
level of creativity
Stars showthekind and energy, you
of day you'll have wi ll need some
** * * * D ynamic downtime. These
** * *
P ositive m o ments will
** * A verage
remaininstrumental
** S o-so
to your success.
* Difficult
If you are single,
you could attract
someone quite different. Be careful, as this
person might not be exactly as he orshe
seems. Takeyour time getting to know a
potential sweetie. If you areattached, be on
guard. Avoid becoming too me-oriented. A
fellow ARIESmight not bethe right person
to have a fight with.

ARIES (March
21-April 19)
** * * By midafternoon, you simply
can't
bestopped.Achangeofpaceoften
energizes you. What you canaccomplish in
a few hours might surprise many people.
A discussion will be directed from the
perspective of the other party. Tonight: The
world isyour oyster.

TAURUS (April20-May20)
** * Use the morning for a meeting or
getting an important errand done. Oncethat
matter is handled, you'll feel more relaxed
and perhaps like adifferent person. You
might want to stop to do someresearch or
return calls. Tonight: If you needsometime
to yourself, just say so.

GEMINI (May21-June20)
** * *
Keep reaching out to someone
at a distance. Youcould be overwhelmed

YOURHOROSCOPE
By Jacqueline Bigar

by everything that is falling into your lap.
You must handle certain matters directly,
butyou can delegate different projects to
others. You needtimetothinkthrough a
decision. Tonight: Chat with a friend.
CANCER (June 21-Jttly22)
** * * A r e you feeling burdened by
everything you have to handle? Detach
first, and then take alook at a different way
ofhandling this overload of responsibilities.
Organization and prioritizing might be
essential, but don't hesitate to ask for some
much-needed help. Tonight: Up late.

** * * Tap into your creativity in the
morning. One ideabuilds from another, and
so on. You will come upwith a workable
solution given some time. Focus ona
certain key task or project in the afternoon.
You still might gain a newperspective.
Tonight: Put your feet up and relax.
** * * You could be trying too hard to
be reasonable, which prevents others
from experiencing the excitement of
your spontaneity. Being more authentic
could move asituation along faster. Later
today, your creativity will merge with your
impulsiveness. Tonight: Keep it light.

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Schimmel inbasketball
he half-court passes, the fearless drives to the basket and
the long, long-range 3-pointers
should look familiar.
Louisville guard Shoni Schimmel
has become the face of this year's
NCAA women's national basketball
tournament, leading the Cardinals
to back-to-back upsets over No. l
ranked Baylor and eight-time national champion Tennessee en route
to just their second Final Four appearance in school history. The Cardinal junior is blogging for ESPNW,
and everyone from The New York
Times to Fox News has done stories
on Schimmel and her younger sister
Jude, a sophomore who comes off the
bench for Louisville, which will play
Connecticut in the championship final on Tuesday night in New Orleans.
Before tearing up the Big East Conference,though, Schimmel starred
for Hermiston High School for two
years, earning Intermountain Conferenceplayer of the year honors as a
freshman and as a sophomore.
"That brought back memories,"
Mountain V ie w g i r l s b a sketball
coach Steve Riper said about watching Schimmel score 24 points in Louisville's 86-78 victory over Tennessee
last Tuesday. Riper was an assistant
with the Cougars between 2006 and
2008 when Schimmel played in the
IMC. "No matter where she got the
ball, she's always looking down the
court, looking at the basket to see
if someone is down there. I saw her
make two or three of those threequarter-court passes that beat (Ten-

TENNIS

Williams wins
Family Circle Cup
Andy Tullis/The Bulletin

Bend Bella Cyclist members Catherine Conlon, left, and Janice Adair pedal down a dirt trail while riding their mountain bikes
together in Bend on Tuesday morning. The area cycling club for women has its kickoff meeting on Thursday.

Jankovic for Serena
Williams to calm down.
Then, settled and able to

1 ln

return to business, she
was a winner oncemore.

W1

Williams defeated
Jankovic 3-6, 6-0, 6-2

Sunday for her second
consecutive Family
Circle Cup title. Momen-

tum swung for goodat
the start of the second
set, when Williams said

Jankovic was serving
too quickly, before she
was ready.
Jankovic disagreed,

If you are an avid cyclist in Central Oregon, there is a good chance you have
shared a road or a trail with the Bend Bella
Cyclists.
The women's cycling club offers organized road- and mountain-bike rides weekly from May through October, along with
monthly activities such as spin classes and
potlucks in the offseason.
Many cycling clubs focus on competition and racing. The "Bellas," as they call

Inside
• Community Sports coverage,BS,B6
themselves, do not. Instead, as their website notes, their mission is to "provide Bend
women with a safe, enjoyable and support-

ed cycling club."
The club,formed in2006 by severallocal
women, now includes more than 60 female
members,according to club treasurer Moe
Slater.
See Bellas/B4

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MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: NCAA TOURNAMENT FINAL

Louisville, Michigan escapeshadows at Final Four
J

By Paul Newberry

Zf

The Associated Press

1
Dave Martin/The Associated Press

Louisville's Shoni Schimmel drives
against California's Afure Jemerigbe
in the second half of Sunday's NCAA
tournament national semifinal in New
Orleans. Louisville won 64-57.

See prep photos from the past

week on The Bulletin's website:
O
denddulletin.com/preppics

CHARLESTON,
S.C.— It took a feisty
exchange with Jelena

ATLANTA — The hoops teams at
Louisville and Michigan are used to
being overlooked.
The Cardinals may be a national
powerhouse, but they're still considered second fiddle in their own state.
The Kentucky Wildcats are the blue
bloods of the bluegrass, while Louisville settles for being viewed as more
of a blue-collar school.
The M i chigan b a sketball t e am
knows what that's like. Football rules
on the Wolverines' campus — rightly
so, said Tim Hardaway Jr., given that

On television

The Cardinals (34-5) have lived up
to their billing as the tournament's top
NCAA tournament, final,
overall seed, blowing through their
Louisville (34-5) vs. Michigan (31-7)
first four opponents before rallying
• When:Today, 6 p.m. • TV: CBS
from a dozen points down in the second half to beat surprising Wichita
State 72-68 in the national semifinals.
It's been quite a run for the Louisprogram's long, storied history.
"We still have a ways to go," said ville athletic program, in general. The
Hardaway, Michigan's junior guard. women's basketball team also reached
"Football has a l o t m or e n ational the championship game, while the
championships than we do."
football team won a Big East title and
Well, it's kind of hard to overlook
stunned Florida in the Sugar Bowl.
either team now. Louisville and MichiAll the while, they're battling with
gan will meet tonight in the NCAA
Kentucky for the state's affections.
championship game.
See Final /B4

but the bickering disrupted her concentration

and her play. Williams
won six straight games
and12 of the final14.
"I don't know what
the turning point was,"
Williams said. "I mean I
think after that I just got

really relaxed andwas
I
like, 'Honestly, Serena,

you've got to kind of chill
out and not get crazy.' "
Instead, the world's

No. 1 player displayed
a brand of unstoppable
tennis she's shown

often, and especially at
thisevent.She became
the first women to capture three titles since
the Family Circle moved
from Hilton Head Island
to Charleston in 2001.
"Definitely a really

cool accomplishment,
really cool, especially at
this particular tournament that has been

BASEBALL
MLB, Cincinnati at St. Louis
MLB, New York Mets at Philadelphia
MLB, Houston at Seattle

BASKETBALL
Men's college, NCAAfinal,
Michigan vs. Louisville

Listings are themostaccurateavailable.
The Bulletinis not responsible for latechangesmade by Nor radio stations.

SPORTS IN BRIEF
BASEBALL

TENNIS

Beavers take series from U.S. OuSted —Even anankle
UCLA —BenWetzler allowed
one run and five hits over seven
innings to help Oregon State
claim a series-clinching 5-2

quarterfinal at Taco Bell Arena
in Boise, Idaho, on Sunday."If

five Bruins. RyanBarnes, Dylan

played," Djokovic said. "The first

Davis and Michael Conforto all
had two hits and Jake Rodri-

half hour it was very painful."
Serbia advanced to a semifinal

guez drove in two runs for the

in September against Canada,

I wasn't playing for Serbia, if I
didn't have my teammates' support, I don't know if I would've

Beavers. UCLA, which won the

which defeated Italy. The
series opener on Friday, dropped other semifinal will pit defendto19-9 overall, 7-2 Pac-12.
ingchampion Czech Republic
Oregon State (25-5, 7-2), which
against Argentina in the Czech
beat the Bruins 5-0 on Saturday, Republic.

in seven innings. Oregon plays a
nonconference gameTuesday at
Oregon State starting at 4 p.m.

HOCKEY
Winter Classic set —The
Winter Classic between the

Toronto Maple Leafs andthe

LACROSSE
Bend United notches
league Win —Katie Alhart
scored six goals to leadBend
United to a13-6 victory Sunday
over South Salem in an Oregon

Girls Lacrosse Association
South League contest at South
Salem High School. Tori Landin

scored three goals, KyraHajovsky added two, andK.J. Hellis
and Kiersten Hizak had one
apiece for Bend United, which

improved to 3-2 overall and 3-0
in league play.

Detroit Red Wings at Michigan

Stadium, canceled this season
due to the NHL lockout, has
been rescheduled for Jan. 1 next

season.
When thisyear'sevent
was canceled, the leaguehad
said it would schedule the next
Winter Classic at the stadium,
which holds more than100,000

people. NHLcommissioner
Gary Bettman made the official

announcement confirming next
season's gameSunday before
the Red Wings hosted the St.

Louis Blues.
— From wire reports

Blackhawks first team
to dinch playoff berth
The Associated Press
CHICAGO Rookie
Brandon Saad and Jonathan
Toews scored 55 seconds
apart midway through the
third period, and the Chicago
Blackhawks rallied to beat
the Nashville Predators 5-3
on Sunday nightto become
the first team to clinch an
NHL playoff spot this season.

ter scored the game's only
goal in St. Louis' win over
Detroit.
Wild 3, Blue Jackets 0: COLUMBUS, Ohio — N i k i as
Backstrom made 24 saves,
and newcomer Jason Pominville had a goal and an assist to help Minnesota snap a
three-game losing streak by
beating Columbus.
Chicago (29-5-4) had fallen
Panthers 1, Senators 0:
behind 3-2 early in the third
SUNRISE, Fia. — Dmitry
on a goal by David Legwand, Kulikov scored a power-play
but Saad and Toews con- goal 10:46 into the third penected against Pekka Rinne riod to lift Florida over Otto put the Blackhawks back tawa and send the Senators
ahead.
to their fourth straight loss.
The Blackhawks defeated
Sabres 3, Devils 2: BUFthe Predatorsfor the second
FALO, N.Y.— Nathan Gerbe
time in two days and im- scored the only goal in the
proved to 13-0-1 against Cen- shootout to give Buffalo a
tral Division teams. Andrew victory over New Jersey that
Shaw and Bryan Bickell also extended the Devils' losing
scored for Chicago, and Pat- streak to seven games.
rick Kane added an emptyCapitals 4, L ightning 2:
net goal.
WASHINGTON Alex
Also on Sunday:
Ovechkin scored twice to
Stars 5, Sharks 4: SAN
m ake it five goals in t w o
JOSE, Calif. — Jamie Benn games, and Washington beat
scored the lone goal in the Tampa Bay.
shootout and Kari Lehtonen
Ducks 3, Kings 2: ANAstopped all three attempts as HEIM, Calif. — Corey Perry
Dallas snapped San Jose's scored late in the second peseven-game winning streak.
riod and added the winning
Blues 1, Red Wings 0: DE- goal in the shootout, leading
TROIT — Brian Eiliott made Anaheim closer to the Pacif28 saves for his 19th career ic Division title with a victory
s hutout an d C h r i s P o r - over Los Angeles.

Johnson continues mastery of Martinsville with NASCAR
victory
The Associated Press
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — No matter the changes to the car, the tires, or
the weather, Martinsville Speedway
is Jimmie Johnson's kind of place.
Johnson ied a career-best 346 laps
Sunday and pulled away on a restart
with eight laps to go for his eighth
career victory on the shortest track
in the Sprint Cup Series, taking over
third place on the career victories list
on NASCAR's oldest track.
The only drivers ahead of him?
Hall of famers Richard Petty with 15

wins, and Darrell Waltrip with 11.
"Probably the most calm, relaxed
thought-out weekend that we've ever
had as the 48 (team)," Johnson said.
From the time he rolled his car
onto the track for the first practice
Friday until the final restart, Johnson
had a dominant car, and knew it. And
with his
track record here,even when
things seemed to take a bad turn, he
and his team trusted history.
"We stuck to our game plan and
knew what we wanted to have in the
race and stayed patient, and it was

MOTOR SPORTS ROUNDUP
tough to do at times, but it certainly
worked out well," the five-time series
champion said. "And in the race, we
had to adjust on the fly."
No team does it better at Martinsville, and while Johnson said the finai caution came at an inopportune
time because he'd built a big lead over
Clint Bowyer, he also realized it may
have saved him from having to fight
off teammate Jeff Gordon.
"Jeff on the long run probably had

the car to beat," he said. "Jeff has a
really good line here on the long run,
and he started catching me before the
last caution and I was thinking, 'Man,
if this stays green, this could be a Jeff
Gordon day.' "
Also on Sunday:
H unter-Reay holds off D ixon t o
win at Barber: BIRMINGHAM, Aia.
— Ryan Hunter-Reay ended Penske
Racing's domination at Barber Motorsports Park by holding off Scott
Dixon to win the IndyCar Series race.
The defending IndyCar champion ran

a steady race, holding strong in one
intense battle for position to claim his
first win of the season. Dixon finished
second for the fourth consecutive
year on the Alabama road course. Helio Castroneves was third and Charlie
Kimball was a career-best fourth.

Johnson sweeps at NHRA in Las
Vegas: LAS VEGAS — Allen Johnson won the Pro Stock event at the
SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals and claimed more than $100,000
during the weekend at The Strip at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

B4 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

Bellas

WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL:FINAL FOUR ROUNDUP

UConn, Louisville to meetfor championship
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Geno
Auriemma shook hi s h e ad
in amazement. With all t he
i ncredible players h e h a s
coached, hecouldn't remember a better effort than the one
Breanna Stewart had against
Notre Dame.
Not with what was on the
line.
The stellar freshman scored
a career-high 29 p oints t o
go with four blocks and was
seemingly everywhere in
leading the Huskies back to
the national c h ampionship
game with an 83-65 win over
the Fighting Irish — their nem-

esis of late — on Sunday night.
"Given the stage, and what
was at stake I d o n't k now
that I've seen any bigger performance," Auriemma said.
"I know there's been NCAA
tournament games that we've
had certain individuals play
great, but I don't remember a
player having a better game in
this environment."
The Huskies will face Louisville in the title game Tuesday
night. UConn will be going for
its eighth national championship to match Tennessee for
the most in women's basketball history.
No team ha s d o minated

Final
Continued from B1
"We're nota who's who like Harvard
and Yale in the alumni world," coach Rick
Pitino said Sunday. "We're a blue-collar
school that supports each other. One of the
coolest
places I've everworked."
Pitino should know. He also worked at
Kentucky, leading the Wildcats to a national title in 1996.
Now, he'sgot a chance to become the
first coach to win championships at two
schools.
"I haven't thought about it for one second," insisted Pitino, already the first
coach to guide three schools to the Final
Four. "We have built a brand on Louisville
first. Everything we do is about the team,
about the family. I'd be a total hypocrite if
I said (winning another title is) really important. It really is not important. I want to
win because I'm part of this team. That's
it."
Football may come first at Michigan
(31-7), but the Wolverines haven't exactly
been pushovers on the hardwood.
They won a national title in 1989, beating Seton Hall in overtime, and they've
lost three other times in the championship. The school is best known for the Fab
Five, that group of five stellar recruits who
led Michigan to back-to-back final appearances in 1992 and '93.
Both teams got to this point with crucial
assists from the backups.
Caris LeVert and Spike Albrecht — yep,
both freshmen — hit a pair of 3-pointers
in Michigan's semifinal win, points that
were desperatelyneeded with player of
the year Trey Burke struggling through a
brutal night. The sophomore guard made
only one of eight shots and finished with
seven points, just the second time this season he's been held in single digits.
Burke said he'll gladly hand off the scoring duties to someone else again today if
the Cardinals take a similar approach to
Syracuse.
"Pretty much every time I got the ball,
I had two people in my face," he said. "I
tried not to force anything, but I probably
forced two or three shots. That 3 I hit (from
way out and his only basket of the game)

Auriemma's Huskies the way
that the Irish had over the past
few seasons. UConn (34-4) had
lost the previous two national
semifinals to the I r ish and
dropped three thrilling games
this season to their rival.
Stewart and her teammates
wouldn't let it happen again,
ending the brilliant career of
Notre Dame guard S k ylar
Diggins. She finished her last
college game with 10 points,
going a dismal three for 15
from the field.
The Huskies built a 10-point
halftime lead playing incredibledefense and Notre Dame

(35-2) could only get within six

in the second half as its school
r ecord 3 0 - game w i n n i n g
streak came to an end.
In Sunday's other national
semifinal:
Louisville 64, California 57:
NEW ORLEANS — Antonita
Slaughter scored 18 points on
six 3-pointers and Louisville
clawed back from a 10-point
halftime deficit to defeat California. Bria Smith scored 17
on six-of-seven shooting for
the Cardinals (29-8), who were
a No. 5 seed and became the
first team seeded worse than
fourth to wi n a F i nal Four
game. L a yshia C l a rendon
scored 17 for Cal (32-4).

score 20 points on six-for-nine shooting,
including three 3-pointers, each bigger

points, 12 reboundsand six assists against
Syracuse and it was during the four minutes

than the one before. Hancock had scored in
double figures just once in the tournament

he was out after picking up his third foul
that the Orange started to make their run.

and that was10 points against Duke.
McGary didn't become starter
a
until the
NCAA tournament, and he is averaging 17.0
Key point
points and11.6 rebounds in the five games.
The Cardinals again showedthey are a
resilient team, rallying from12 points down Key point
with 13:36 to play against the Shockers.
That wasn't quite as impressive as the Big

Their youth didn't seem to bother the

East tournament championship gamewhen

have plenty of guards available to handle

Louisville rallied from a16-point deficit with
15:51 to play to win by17. Their15-game

winning streak is their longest since 200304.

Wolverines against Syracuseandthey
Louisville's pressure. TreyBurke has had
big games following off ones, and that
should worry Louisville since he missed

seven of his eight shots against Syracuse.

The skinny
There will be plenty of good guards in the championship game,and Michigan will need

Now, she rides with other
women at her own pace. "It
Continued from B1
has enhanced my living exWhile the club is open perience tremendously,"says
to female riders of all ages, Adair of her involvement with
current group m e mbers the Bella Cyclists. "It's a fun
range inage from 24 to 67 way to get exercise."
years old.
For some m embers, the
"There are women (in
club's organized rides serve
the club) from all walks of as motivation to exercise.
"If I don't have a commitlife," notes Bellas president
Barb Smith.
ment, I'm not going to get out
"It's a diverse group, but the door," says ride leader
(we have) so much in com- Catherine Conlon. "I have to
mon ... we run together, show up (to group rides)."
ride together, ski together,"
While Conlon, 47, helps deadds Slater.
termine which trails or routes
The club is split about the group will ride, Smith says
e qually b e t ween t h o se other members areexpected
who ride either mountain to lead rides on occasion.
bikes or road bikes excluThe rides are social in nasively and those who enjoy ture. "We talk the whole way,"
both. It is divided into two says Smith, noting that most
groups: "Conversational" e xcursions c o nclude w i t h
and "Easy Riders." The lunch or drinks at a nearby
Conversational group (for restaurant.
"We joke that $25 buys us
intermediate riders) alternates each weekend be- friends," she adds with a laugh
tween road and mountain in reference to the club's anbike rides, while the Easy nual membership fee (which
Riders typically mountain covers club expenses such as
bike once during the week insurance, winter activities,
a nd occasionally on t h e
and gas for carpool trips).
weekend at a slower (but
For many m embers, the
not beginner) pace, accord- Bellas community is one of
ing to Smith.
encouragement.
Smith says those new to
Slater,who has a self-deroad or mountain biking scribed phobia of descending
are encouraged to attend steep hills w h ile m ountain
a beginner's cycling clinic biking, says fellow club mem(offered by several local bers have shown support inbike shops) to learn basic stead of prodding her to go
bike-handling skills before down hills on group rides.
"We can be so critical of our
joining the Bellas.
Most of the time, says own riding as women," says
Slater, the E asy R i ders Slater. "But we are so acceptspend one or tw o h ours ing of each other."
riding singletrack trails on
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frequent t h e D e s chutes
River Trail and Phil's Trail
in Bend, and they often
carpool to locations such
as Suttle Lake and Peterson Ridge in the Sisters
area, says Slater, 57.
A retired naval officer,
Slater says she had been
l ooking for a g r o u p t o
mountain bike with before
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every one of them to handle Louisville's relentless pressure. Handling McGary inside will

The camaraderie of a

be key, andthat means Louisville will need abig gamefrom center Gorgui Dieng, who took
just one shot and blocked just two in 30 minutes in the semifinal.

cycling club appealed to

Thepick
Louisville seems like a different team with the way the bench delivered 34 points and allowed

her. "When you are out
(riding a trail) by yourself

the Cardinals to rally. Michigan can't feel comfortable even if takes anearly lead. It would be

"It's nice to have a group to
know the routes and where
to turn."
Slater and Smith agree
that riding as a group is of
paramount importance to
the Bellas, who have adopted the military maxim,
"leave no one behind."
"Even if someone is slow
they are not going to get left
behind," says Smith, who
adds that a group leader
routinely rides in the back
of the pack.
"We look out for one another," adds fellow Bella
rider Janice Adair.
Adair, 56, speaks from
experience. When a tire
fell off her mountain bike
during a group trail ride
with the Bellas last season,
another member stopped
and helped her reattach it.
Adair says she joined the
cycling club last year soon
after moving to Bend. At
first she mountain biked
with her husband, who often rode ahead of her at a
faster pace.

crazy to pick against coach Rick Pitino with the run he's on: Louisville 72-61.
— The Associated Press

wasn't a good shot. But I try not to force
things and just look for different ways to
find the open man."
Louisville, inspired by the gruesome
injury to Kevin Ware but needing others
to step up while he's down, got an even
bigger contribution off the bench than
Michigan.
Luke Hancock scored 20 points. Walko n Tim Henderson, moving up in t h e
rotationbecause of Ware's broken leg,
knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers

Schimmel
Continued from 61
"That's how Hermiston used
to kill you," Riper added. "If it
wasn't an easy pass to a teammate, she'd bury you with a 25foot jumper. You just sat there
and thought, ' How do y ou
guard that'?' "
Schimmel made an impact
in the IMC as a freshman, leading the Bulldogs to the 2006-07
league title while scoring an
IMC-best 15.9 points per game.
With Schimmel running the
show that season, Hermiston
went 20-9 and placed fourth at
the Class 5A state tournament.
"Man, could she shoot," Riper remembered. "And she had
great court vision. As a young
player, she was probably a better passer (than shooter), but
she always had tremendous
range. When she got hot, she'd
hit four or five 3s in a row and
just bury a team by herself."
As as sophomore, Schimmel and the Bulldogs finished
just one win short of bringing
Hermiston its first state title,
falling to Jefferson of Portland
in the 5A championship game.
In t h ree s tate t o urnament
games that season, Schimmel
averaged 20.7 points, 7.0 assists and 4.7 steals per contest.
"You could always tell she'd
be a player at the next level,"
said Redmond High boys basketball coach Jon C o rbett,
who was also an assistant girls
coach at Mountain View during Schimmel's two seasons in
the IMC. "She just played a different style of basketball ... the
court vision, the ballhandling.
... She always had really deep
range, but she also had a quick
shot and a g r eat hesitation
move. You could tell she'd been

that turned the momentum when it looked
as though Wichita State might pull off anothershocker.
There'salways a chance for the more
obscure players to step up on the biggest
stages.
"Those guys, not that you don't pay attention to them, but your strategy is not
toward them." Pitino said. "We're all trying to stop the great players defensively,
choreograph our defensive plan to stop the
great players."

Franklin High a t t h e s t art
of her junior year when her
mother, Ceci Moses, was hired
as the Quakers' head girls
basketball coach. In Portland,
Moses and h e r d a u ghters
led Franklin to back-to-back
Class 6A state quarterfinal
appearances. As a s e n i or,
Shoni Schimmel averaged an
eye-popping 29.8 points, 9.0
rebounds, 7.3 assists and 5.5
steals a game.
"We knew she was about

as good as a player can be,"

recalled Crook County head
girls coach Dave Johnson,
who was an assistant coach
with the Cowgirls when they
played Schimmel's Hermiston
teams. "First of all, she was
great on the drive. But her
range was unbelievable.
She hit one of the longest (3pointers) I've ever seen a kid
hit. She was two, maybe three
dribblesacross halfcourt — of
course we weren't guarding
her — and she launches it and
hits nothing but net."
At L o u isville, S chimmel
made an immediate splash and
started all 35 of the Cardinals'
games in her freshman season. She earned all-Big East
freshman team honors during
the 2010-11 season and was
all-Big East honorable mention
while averaging 15.1 points per
game for a Louisville squad
that advanced to the Sweet
16. Last year Schimmel led
the Cardinals with 14.3 points
and 4.7 assists per game, but
Louisville was bounced from
the NCAA tournament in the
round of 32.
Louisville advanced to the
title game with a 64-57 semifinal v i ctory S u nday o v er
California, a comeback win
in which the Schimmel sisters
playing a long, long time."
combined for 19 points and
Schimmel spent only two
eight rebounds. Shoni booked
years at Hermiston as she a game-high six assists and
transferred to Por t l a nd's also led all players with two

blocked shots.
"It's great seeing her do so
well, to watch highlights on
(ESPN's) SportsCenter of a
kid from Oregon doing such a
great job," said Johnson. "It's
like what the UConn coach
(Geno Auriemma) said: 'The
Schimmel sisters are the two
most exciting players in our
game today.' That's pretty awesome that he's talking about
two kids from Oregon that we
had a chance to play against.
"I'm definitely a Louisville
women's basketball fan right
now," Johnson said.
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PORTLAND — Those beards aren't coming off
yet.
Chris Kaman scored a season-high 26 points and
the unshaven Dallas Mavericks boosted their faint
playoff hopes with a 96-91 victory over the slumping
Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday night.
Kaman added 11 rebounds for the Mavericks, who
were 2'/2 games back of Utah for the eighth and final
spot in the Western Conference, and two games behind the Lakers. Dallas (38-39) has just five games
left, but four of those are at home.
Led by veteran Dirk Nowitzki, a handful of the
Mavs have been growing out their beards since early
February, vowing not to shave until they reach .500
and make the playoffs. Kaman is among them.
"I'm not sure how excited everyone else is about it
because I don't think they like how it looks," he said.
"But I'm not really thinking about it because it's important for us to finish the season on a good note and
we have the next five games to do that."
The Mavs led by as many as 26 points, but the Blazers closedthe gap in the fourth quarter — even after
sitting most of their starters.
Rookie Will Barton came off the bench with 22
points and 13 rebounds for the Blazers, who have
lost eight straight for their longest losing streak since
the 2005-06 season. Portland (33-44) was eliminated
from the playoffs after Friday night's 116-98 loss to
the Houston Rockets.
Rookie Damian Lillard's layup narrowed Dallas'
lead to 88-80 with 4:48 left. The Blazers pulled closer
at 88-83on Barton'sjumper.
O.J.Mayo and Shawn Marion had consecutive baskets to slow Portland's momentum, but Eric Maynor's
layup and a pair of free throws got the Blazers within
94-91 with 39 seconds left.
After Mayo missed a 3-pointer on the other end,
Lillard's attempted layup with 6.9 seconds to go didn't
fall. Marion scored at the buzzer for the final margin.
Barton's breakout performance had the Blazers in
an upbeat mood following the game, despite the loss.
Barton had 18 points and 11 rebounds in the second
half alone.
"Yeah Willie B! Yeah Willie B!" two-time All-Star
LaMarcus Aldridge shouted across the locker room.
"What did you eat today?"
Barton, who was a second-round pick by the Blazers out of Memphis, was brimming with confidence.
"Everyone on the team says I've got a special talent," he said. "You've just got to wait your turn
sometimes."
Portland was without starting forward Nicolas Batum for the third straight game because of a sore right
shoulder. Victor Claver started in his place.
The Blazers were stung when guard Wesley Matthews was helped off the court with a right ankle injury with 8:27 left in the second quarter. The extent of
the injury was not immediately known but Matthews
was on crutches following the game. The four-year
NBA veteran was averaging 15 points, 2.8 rebounds
and 2.5 assists going into the game.
Also on Sunday:
Knicks 125, Thunder 120: OKLAHOMA C IT Y

RUGBY
Roughriders win —
TheBendRugby
Club Roughriders scored a 36-33 victory over
Salem in a Pacific Northwest Rugby Football

Get the Girls Out —Female skiers and
snowboarders of all ages are invited to attend Get the Girls Out, a free event held at
Mt. Bachelor ski area on April 21 starting at
10 a.m. Participants will meet near the Pine

Union Division III contest Saturday at Bend's

Marten chairlift before splitting into groups

High Desert Middle School. Bend needed to
win by13 points or more to overtake Salem

to ski or snowboard. Get the Girls Out is a

for a berth in the PNRFU
Division III playoffs,
set for April 20-21 in Bend, but Salem retained
the berth by keeping the final score close. For

Doors at Cascade Indoor Sports will open at
4 p.m. To buy tickets or for more information,

redeemed for a $25 full-day lift ticket. Vouch-

visit www.lavacityrollerdolls.com.

ers can bepicked upstarting today at the Boys
8 Girls Club, 500 N.W. Wall St. in Bend. For
more information, visit www.bgcco.org or call
541-617-2877.

Mini World Cupseason ends —wlth

FENCING
Locals compete in Salemtourna-

ment —lan Ferguson, a memberof the Or-

the last race of the five-race series in the

egon Fencible
s in Bend,placed second in the

books, the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education

senior mixed openepeecompetition at the

Foundation's Mini World Cup final season
standings have been posted. Results from the

Aldo Nadi Tournament in Salem on March 30.
Ferguson, 18, is a student at Summit High

2013 season finale, stagedMarch 23 at Mt.

School. Ferguson competed against14 other

Bachelor ski area, are listed in Community

fencers in the event held at Salem Classical

Sports Scoreboard (B6), along with final team Fencing. Fellow club member Kellian Moore,
standings andthetop five boys andtop five
15 and a Culver High student, placed12th in
girls in the U10, U12 and U14 age classifications.

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on't bother telling Tim Scott
that slow play leads to quality

golf.

As one of the pre-eminent "speedgolfers" in the world, the former Bend
resident can play 18 holes of par golf
or better in less than an hour.
It is a fair bet that Scott, the newly
minted executive director of speed-

under the United States Golf Association's Rules of Golf.)
And to see it played well is a sight
in itself. Portland-area golf pro Chris
Smith, who d i scovered speedgolf
with Scott after the two friends read
a 1999 story on the sport in Runner's
World magazine, is i n G u i nness
World Records for his speedgolf
success. Smith set the record at the

speedgolf right
nowin a way
that there hasn't been. It's
really the first time we've
had resources and really
the interest."
— Former Bend resident
Tim Scott, the executive director
of Speedgolf International

2005 Chicago Speedgolf Classic by

ternational, is probably not the reason threefoursomes are stacked up
onapar3.
The fledgling sport combines distance running and golf, a coupling as
unlikely as oil and water or Felix and
Oscar. Yet Scott — a 49-year-old who
recently moved from Bend to the Sacramento, Calif., area — thinks there
could be an opening for growth. And
that as a product, speedgolf could
serve as inspiration to solve one of
conventional golf's most vexing problems: slow play.
"With the pace-of-play issues that
have really come to the forefront in
the last few years, the numbers of
golfers have gone down across the
country," says Scott, a former golf
pro who played for the University of
Oregon golf team in the 1980s. "People don't have 5'/~, six hours to spend

shooting a 65 on a regulation, albeit
short, course in a time of 44 minutes,
6 seconds.
That is some awfully fine golf to be
played that quickly.
Smith thinks there is a lesson in
speedgolf for conventional golfers.
"What if finally people realize that
if they played a little bit faster — and
speedgolf is a n e x t r eme version
of playing a little bit faster — they
played better'?" asks Smith, who is
the lead instructor at Pumpkin Ridge
Golf Club. "What speedgolf does is
that it demonstrates — and granted,
these are elite athletes and it is an
extreme version — is that you don't
have to play slowly to play well."
For any lesson to be taught, there
must be some exposure.
That could come this Saturday,
when CBS airs a short documentary
on speedgolf at 10:30 a.m., just before
third-round coverage ofthe Masters

(on golf)."

begins.

To understand how speedgolf can
change conventional golf, one must
first understand the sport itself.
The aim is simple: Shoot the lowest
score possible in the shortest possible
time. Playing with a small bag with
five or six clubs, speedgolfers add
their stroke score with their elapsed
time over 18 holes to come up with
their total score. For example, a score

The show centers around the firstever Speedgolf World Championship,
played last October at Bandon Dunes
Golf Resort on the southern Oregon
Coast.
The documentary was produced
by Bandon Dunes and has been promoted by the famed course through
email blasts as "Our way of celebrating the origins of golf more than 500

years ago when a round was played
at a faster pace."
In addition, small speedgolf clubs
are popping up in locations across
the U.S., including at RedTail Golf
Center in Beaverton, where a handful of players meet just after dawn
each Wednesday, Smith says.
S peedgolf International i s a l s o
trying to spark a professional tour,
starting with a June tournament in
Richmond, Va., with a purse of about
$35,000.
Such promotion of the sport has
both Scott and Smith thinking that
the future of s peedgolf could be

bright.
"There just seems to be a lot of momentum in speedgolf right now in
a way that there hasn't been," says
Scott, who spent 10 years as a school
teacher in Sunriver. "It's really the
first time we've had resources and
really the interest."
With this region's love of running,

offering a free membership to one
active-duty military family in Central

golf, and relatively obscure sports,
it seems Central Oregon could be a
hotbed for speedgolf. Yet the sport
has gained little traction here, other
than tournaments that Scott helped
organize in2003 and 2004 at Eagle
Crest Resort in Redmond.
That could be changing. Sunriver
Resort is planning to host a speedgolf
tournament over Labor Day weekend this summer at its Caldera Links
short course aspart of its Sunriver
Marathon for a Cause breast cancer
charity event.
"We heard that speedgolf is growing in popularity and we thought it
would be a nice, fun activity as an
add-on to our marathon weekend,"
says Scott Ellender, Sunriver Resort's
director of operations.
Speedgolf will likely always be a
"niche sport," Scott says. But how
many niche sports have the potential to improve a more mainstream
counterpart?
Smith was shocked at how well he
played when he first took up speedgolf and decided to do some research,
speaking with neuroscientists, motor
learning specialists, and human performance experts.
He says they all came to the same
conclusion: Playing slowly actually

Oregon,
theclubannounced.Lost
Tracks is asking any active-duty
military family in Central Oregon (or

friends who wish to nominate another family) who are interested in this
"scholarship" to send Lost Tracks an

essay of 500 words or less on how
it will enrich the family's life. Essays
must be submitted by April 30 by

2013 golf season — will be chosen
by Lost Tracks staff. The membership is an expansion of Patriot Golf

Day, according to Lost Tracks. The
nationwide golf fundraiser benefits
the Folds of Honor Foundation,

which provides post-secondary
educational scholarships to families
of American soldiers who have

been disabled or killed in the line of
duty. Brian Whitcomb, the owner of
Lost Tracks and a past president of

the PGA ofAmerica, helped devise
Patriot Golf Day as president of the
PGA. For more information on the
membership: 541-385-1818.

hurts a golfer's game.

Tetherow hires manager

It's not that every golfer should become a speedgolfer,
Smith says.
"With the time-crunched society
that we live in now, there's going to
have to be some radical, drastic, creative ways to keep people in (conven-

— Tetherow Golf Club has hired
Davis Smith has the Bend club's

operations manager. Smith is a
veteran in the local hospitality
industry, working at The Oxford
Hotel in downtown Bend, Sunriver

tional golf) and keep people coming
into the game," Smith says. "Speed-

Resort and EagleCrest Resort in

golf might be for a few, which is fine.
But the catch is that everybody wants
to play better and most people would
like to get off the golf course in less
than five hours."
Playing faster might just help on
both fronts. Just ask a guy who can
play a round under 70 in less time
than it takes most of us to get from
the parking lot to the first tee.

Redmond. At Tetherow he will be re-

sponsible for daily operations planning,budgetmanagement,member
and guest relations and employee
guidance for the club. "As Tetherow

begins construction of its overnight
accommodations,
Davis'knowledge
of developing, marketing and operating a hotel is incredibly valuable,"
said Chris van der Velde, Tetherow's

managing partner.

— Reporter: 541-617-7868,
zhall@bendbulletin.com.

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Laird fires63
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By John Nicholson
The Associated Press

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.
— Any drama left Sunday at
Mission Hills was gone a few
minutes after the final group
teed off.
Robbing the Kraft Nabisco
Championship of another exciting finish, Inbee Park doubled
her lead to six strokes over
playing partner Lizette Salas
on the par-4 opening hole and
ran away with her second major title.
Park made a 20-foot birdie
putt, showing off a p u t t ing
touch unmatched in women's
golf, and Salas had a messy
double bogey for a three-stroke

swing.
"That made my day much
easier, that's for sure," Park
sard.
The 2008 U.S. Women's Open
winner at I n t erlachen, Park
closed with a 3 -under 69 to
finish at 15 under, four strokes
ahead of fellow South Korean
player So Yeon Ryu.
"It had been a while since
I won a major. It feels very
special," said Park, the third

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Inbee Park reacts after winning the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Sunday.
straight South Korean major
winner and the eighth in a row
from Asia.
Park celebrated the victory
with the traditional leap into
Poppie's Pond.
"It was great," Park said.
"That's the pond I've always
wanted to jump in and I finally

jumped in. It was a little bit

chilly, though."
She also jumped from fourth
to second in the world with her
fifth LPGA Tour title and ninth
worldwide win.
"I only have one more spot to
go," Park said.
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er entered the weekhaving
missed four of eight cuts
this year.
Mcllroy, the world's No.
2, began the day at 6 under
before posting a 66 to
finish two shots backand
finish second — his best
finish of the year.
Horschel shot a1-under
71 to finish in a tie for third
with Jim Furyk and Charley
Hoffman.
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Tiger Woods in a green jacket once felt like
an annual celebration of spring, as regular
as the azaleas bursting with color at Augusta
National.
Now it's more like a fading memory.
It has been eight years since Woods rolled
in a 15-foot birdie putt to win the Masters in
a playoff for his fourth green jacket. He appeared to be well on his way to living up to
the audacious prediction made by Jack Nicklaus, who played a practice round at Augusta
with Woods — then a 19-year-old amateurand Arnold Palmer. Nicklaus came away so
impressed that he considered his six Masters
and the four won by Palmer and said, "This
kid should win more than that."
But the major Woods was supposed to
dominate has become the major he can't
seem to win anymore.
"It's been one of those things where I've
been close there so many times on that back
nine on Sunday, and I just haven't won,"
Woods said. "I've been in the mix. Been on
the periphery and played myself into the mix.
I've been right there with just a few holes to
go, and it just hasn't happened. Hopefully,
this year it will be a different story."
This might be his best chance to end the
drought — not only at the Masters, but in the
majors. His last victory in one was the 2008
U.S. Open.
See Augusta/B10

Bubba Watsonheld his right arm out to his side
and hung his head as his tee shot sailed toward the
woods to the right of the10th fairway at Augusta

National. For amoment, it looked asthough he would
be the latest victim of what perennially is the toughest hole at the Masters.

What followed was agreat escapeand a green
jacket.
"If I have a swing, I've got a shot," he loves to tell

Robert Allenby in 2008. Oneof the most famous

Sunday. If that's the case, it begins with a brute.
The10th hole does not play nearly as long as the

putts took place on the10th green in the final round
of1984 when Ben Crenshaw holed a 60-foot birdie
putt with about 20 feet of break on his way to winning the Masters.

yardage suggests because ofthe severe drop in
elevation off the tee. Most players opt for a fairway

Highlights, however, arerare, especially in a playoff. The10th hole is knownmorefor heartache than

in Masters lore. Watson had to hit a 40-yard hook
— low until it cleared the last of the trees, then rising

Weir in 2003 when he pulled his approach down the
steep bank to the left of the green. He made double

good tee shot, it shortens the hole, you're in the flat

enough to land on
the elevated green toabout10

bogey, andWeir only had to three-putt for bogey to

feet below the hole. He two-putted for par to defeat
Louis Oosthuizen and thus kept intact a footnote in

become the first Canadian champion. Kenny Perry
went left of the green and made bogey in 2009 to

Augusta history.

lose to AngelCabrera.

There have been four playoffs that ended on the
10th hole. The winner only had to make par.

"I would say it probably hasmore of an'Uh-oh'

And perhaps the most infamous moment happened in1989, when Scott Hoch had a 3~/2-foot putt

Rory Mcllroy knows what it's like to hit a bad tee
shot.
He had a four-shot lead going into the final round
in 2011 when he hit driver off the10th tee and, trying
to hit a draw, snap-hooked it so far left he wound up
behind the cabins. Mcllroy struggled to get the ball

for par to win the Masters. Hemissed, giving Nick

back in play, andhis triple bogey wasthe start of a

connotation rather than an opportunistic one," Jim
Furyk said of the par 4 that measures 495 yards.

Faldoasecond chance,and Faldo beathim onthe
next hole.

shocking meltdown. He shot 80 that day.
"I've seen all of that hole," Mcllroy said. "I've seen

standable. It's a hard, hard golf hole."
Statistically, it's the hardest on the course.
Since the Masters began in1934 — the10th
actually was the opening hole in the inaugural year of

is advancing," Stewart Cink said. "It's a hole where

places on that hole that no onehas seen.The proper
way to play it is a 5-wood or a3-wood, a lowdraw

"There's beensomewrecks there, but it's under-

the tournament — it hasyielded anaverage score of
4.32. There havebeeneight eagles, the most recent

area, you feel good."

"There's way morestumbling on No. 10than there

you're forced to play somewhatdefensively. But
that's the character of the golf course. It entices you
to play defensively, but it awards aggressive play."
One of the most famoussayings about the Masters is that it doesn't really start until the back nine on

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to get it running down the hill, and then a 6-iron or

7-iron into the green.All you're trying to do is leave
it below the pin. It's such a fast green. It's one of the
hardest holes."
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but a pond guards
the front and there
is a bunker to the
right. Evenfor those
laying up,the third
shot requiresa
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the ball to the right.

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